11 AUGUST 2009, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cIn Germany, Old Secret Police Agents Never Die, They Just Change Uniforms\u201d \u2013 5<\/p>\n
(NOTE: This report illustrates just how long and persistent German institutional memory can be, and who can embody it, even in cases where there may not be a direct link with a German university like the Technical University of Munich.)<\/p>\n
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on 5 May 2009, \u201cIt is really, really important \u2013 as the former East Germany passes into history \u2013 that we do not forget the communist dictatorship there and that we close our eyes to nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n Forget nothing, close our eyes to nothing. However, in the German state of Brandenburg, the new police authorities from the West treated the East German past a little differently. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the communist regime, hundreds of Stasi officers and informers became members of the Brandenburg police force, ordinarily without any close examination of their Stasi past. <\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: \u201cMonitor,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Television Broadcast of 2 July 2009.<\/p>\n *The Technical University of Munich, officially recognized by the German government as an \u201celite university,\u201d is ranked 67 among the world\u2019s universities. That is, for example, sixteen places below Seoul National University of South Korea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2007)<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the traditional study-abroad sites for Americans \u2014 Britain, Italy, Spain and France \u2014 still attract more students from the United States, the report found that China is now the fifth-most-popular destination.\u201d \u2013 The New York Times, 17 November 2008<\/p>\n And what about Germany?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n 11 AUGUST 2009, DIENSTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen* \u2013 \u201eIn Deutschland sterben Stasi-Agenten nie, sie wechseln einfach die Uniformen\u201c \u2013 5<\/p>\n (Bemerkung: Dieser Bericht veranschaulicht, wie umfangreich und hartn\u00e4ckig das Langzeitged\u00e4chtnis deutscher Einrichtungen sein kann, und wer es verk\u00f6rpern kann, auch in F\u00e4llen, worin es keine unmittelbare Verbindung mit einer deutschen Universit\u00e4t wie der Technischen Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen geben mag.)<\/p>\n Angela Merkel, Bundeskanzlerin (am 5. Mai 2009): “Es ist ganz, ganz wichtig, auch in dem Ma\u00dfe, wie die Zeit in der DDR ja Geschichte wird, dass wir dieses Kapitel der DDR-Diktatur nicht ausblenden, nicht vergessen.”<\/p>\n Nicht vergessen, nicht ausblenden. In Brandenburgs Polizei geht man mit der DDR Vergangenheit etwas anders um. Hunderte hauptamtliche und inoffizielle Mitarbeiter der Staatssicherheit wurden nach der Wende in den Polizeidienst \u00fcbernommen, in der Regel ohne genaue Pr\u00fcfung ihrer Stasi-Vergangenheit.<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n Quelle: \u201eMonitor\u201c, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Sendung vom 02.07.2009.<\/p>\n *Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, eine durch die deutsche Regierung anerkannte \u201eElite-Universit\u00e4t\u201c, steht an der 67. Stelle in der Welt; d.h., zum Beispiel, 16 Stellen unter der Seoul National University von S\u00fcdkorea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2007)<\/p>\n \u201eUnter Amerikanern, die im Ausland studieren, sind die beliebtesten L\u00e4nder Gro\u00dfbritannien, Italien, Spanien, Frankreich und China.\u201c \u2013 The New York Times, 17.11.2008.<\/p>\n Und was ist mit Deutschland?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/ 11 AUGUST 2009, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cIn Germany, Old Secret Police Agents Never Die, They Just Change Uniforms\u201d \u2013 5 (NOTE: This report illustrates just how long and persistent German institutional memory can be, and who can embody it, even in cases where there may not be a direct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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