The GDR’s Westpolitik and everyday anticommunism in West Germany
- West German anticommunism and the SED’s Westarbeit were to some extentinterrelated. From the beginning, each German state had attemted to stabilise itsown social system while trying to discredit its political opponent. The claim tosole representation and the refusal to acknowledge each other delineated governmentalaction on both sides. Anticommunism inWest Germany re-developed under theconditions of the Cold War, which allowed it to become virtually the reason ofstate and to serve as a tool for the exclusion of KPD supporters. In its turn, theSED branded the West German State as‘revanchist’and instrumentalised itsanticommunism to persecute and eliminate opponents within the GDR. Bothphenomena had an integrative and exclusionary element.
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| Author details: | Dierk HoffmannGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-435184 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43518 |
| ISSN: | 1866-8380 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam Philosophische Reihe |
| Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe (167) |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2019/12/13 |
| Publication year: | 2017 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2019/12/13 |
| Issue: | 167 |
| Number of pages: | 17 |
| Source: | Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2 (2017) 11 DOI: 10.1186/s40856-017-0022-5 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
