
Suppressed Terror
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How can one write the history of victims in a "society of perpetrators?" This is only one of the questions Displaced Terror: History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany raises in exploring issues in memory culture in contemporary Germany. The study begins with a detailed description of the camp system against the backdrop of Stalinist security policies in a territory undergoing a transition from war zone to occupation zone to Cold War hot spot. The interpretation of the camps as an instrument of pacification rather than of denacification does not ignore the fact that, while actual perpetrators were a minority, the majority of the special camp inmates had at least been supporters of Nazi rule and were now imprisoned under life-threatening conditions together with victims and opponents of the defeated regime. Based on their detention memoirs, the second part of the book offers a closer look at life and death in the camps, focusing on the prisoners' self-organization and the frictions within these coerced communities. The memoirs also play an important role in the third and last part of the study. Read as attempts to establish public acknowledgment of violence suffered by Germans, they mirror German memory culture since the end of World War II.
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Preface to the English Edition
Chapter One - Introduction
The Camp System
Internees and SMT Prisoners
Explorations
Detention Measures
Detention Experiences
Detention Memories
Chapter Two - Detention Measures
Internments
"Mobilization" and "Cleansing the Rear Area" between December 1944 and April 1945
The NKVD Order No. 00315 or the End of "Mobilization"
The Primacy of the Pacification Policy
Isolation as "Political Prophylaxis"
Soviet Military Tribunals (SMTs)
The Work of the SMTs
Functional Changes in the Camp System
The Logic of Judicial Terror
Judicial Prosecution of "Class Enemies"
"Political Purges" and the Struggle against "Deviationists"
Russian Roulette
Chapter Three - Detention Experiences
Arrest
Dawn Raids
Denounced
In Shock
In the "GPU Cellars"
Detention Conditions
Interrogations
Traitors
Verdicts
In Special Camp No. 7/No. 1 Sachsenhausen
Parallel Worlds: "Politicals" and "Criminals"
The Divided Camp Community
Daily Life in the Sachsenhausen Special Camp
Fragments
Chapter Four - Detention Memoirs
Freedom
The Closure of the Special Camps, 1950
The Combat Group against Inhumanity
The Price of Recognition
"Empty" Memory Sites
"Second-Class Victims" or Self-Imposed Isolation
A Last Attempt: The Publication Offensive after 1989-1990
"Gray" Literature
The Dependency Trap
"Documentarism" as Narrative Style
"Alternate Framings" and Other "Narrative Templates"
Self-devised Traps-Memoirs after 1989
Chapter Five - The Special Camps and Their Place in History
Internment Camps
The POW Camps of the GUPVI
The Soviet GULAG
National Socialist Camps
Notes
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index
Author Note
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