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«Tote Ehrenbürger lässt Gemeindeordnung nicht zu». Remembering Soviet repression in Germany
Hussinger, Melanie
2024
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Abstract
The article follows the traces of a memorial plaque installed in May 2023, which publicly names Arthur Jubelt, who died in the Buchenwald special camp in 1947, as a victim of Stalinist repression in East Germany. The memorial plaque is part of an international, post-socialist memorial initiative Last Address, which began in Moscow in 2014. The ar¬ticle attempts to analyse the social initiative within the German culture of remembrance and shows why the adaptation of a memorial project originating in Russia is not without conflict. By examining the history of coming to terms with Stalinist repression in the par¬ticular case of the GDR and the current landscape of remembrance in Germany, the article sheds light on the divergent interpretations and politicisations of this commemoration.
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Melanie Hussinger, "«Tote Ehrenbürger lässt Gemeindeordnung nicht zu». Remembering Soviet repression in Germany" in: "Qualestoria. Rivista di storia contemporanea. LII, N.ro 2, Dicembre 2024", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2024, pp. 147-167
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de
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