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2024-09-27
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„Verräterbestie in Menschengestalt“?
Das Volksgerichtsverfahren gegen den Sozialdemokraten Johann Pav
Udo Grashoff
Keywords: Dictatorship Research, Denazification, Traitors, Workers' parties, Johann Pav, Volksgericht
Abstract
Dozens of communists and social democrats who, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes under duress, collaborated with the Gestapo during the Nazi regime lived in the GDR, West Germany and Austria after the end of the war. While previous research on Nazi involvement tended to be limited to bourgeois and conservative circles, this research project examines how the collaboration of communist and social democratic resisters was dealt with in public discourse in the three successor states of the ‘Third Reich’. It analyses legal reappraisals, public controversies, internal party ‘purges’ and biographical continuities.
Author Biography
Udo Grashoff
- since 2023 researcher in his own research project “The long shadow of collaboration “, funded by the DFG
- 2019 Habilitation at Leipzig University “Betrayal in the Communist Resistance to National Socialism 1933–45”
- 2006 Doctorate at Leipzig University “Suicides in the GDR"
