Maria PanoussiPolitisches Exil. Die griechischen politischen Immigranten in der SBZ/DDR (1949–1982)
Identität, Wahrnehmung und gesellschaftliche Partizipation
Studien zur Zeitgeschichte, volume 102
Hamburg 2017, 352 pages
ISBN 978-3-8300-9502-6 (print) |ISBN 978-3-339-09502-2 (eBook)
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[...] Maria Panoussi gelingt mit ihrer Dissertation in einer verdichteten Beschreibung der komplexen Zusammenhänge eine dezidierte Darstellung der Situation der Griechen in der DDR. [...]
Die Arbeit in sich ist ein wichtiger Forschungsbeitrag zur Migrations und Asylpolitik der DDR. Mit dem Ausblick auf weitere Forschungsansätze eröffnet die Autorin neue Horizonte.
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After the collapse of communist resistance in the Greek civil war between the years 1949 and 1950, about 1,040–1,240 politically persecuted persons escaped to the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ), later German Democratic Republic (DDR), in order to avoid political persecutions by the right-wing victorious power. During their stay in the host country, the GDR was providing not only mental and health recovery to them, but also vocational training and ideological education. The ultimate purpose of that acquired knowledge was eventually to be applied to a potential socialist development in Greece. The de-Stalinization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1956 marked a milestone for Greeks in the GDR. Their so far temporary stay was necessarily extended. The course of history was taking a different way for Greek political refugees. The Ministry of State Security started to spy on them by sending informal Greek officers and informants. Did the authorities aim to dismantle an opposition movement or other anti-state activities of Greeks?
The establishment of the dictatorship in Greece in 1967 and the split of the Communist Party in 1968 resulted in a further delay of the return of Greeks to Greece. However, the establishment of diplomatic relations between Greece and the German Democratic Republic in 1973 and the fall of the military junta in 1974 in Greece made possible the return of all political persecuted. However, are not all Greeks returned to Greece. How did their life evolve in the GDR?
This interdisciplinary, historical and social, study aims at providing another extensive investigation in the wide field of the history of the GDR. Specifically, it focuses on the migration policy of the SED regime, in particular at the full social integration of an exile group that has managed to maintain its national and cultural identity beyond the borders. Greeks in the GDR experienced the socialist society, were integrated into it and, with state support, they maintained their cultural and linguistic identity and their Greek memory.
Keywords
Bildung und ErziehungDDRGDRGesellschaftliche PartizipationGriechenHeimerziehungIdentitätMarkoskinderPolitisches ExilSBZSEDStaatssicherheitZeitgeschichteIhr Werk im Verlag Dr. Kovač
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