12 AUGUST 2009, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cIn Germany, Old Secret Police Agents Never Die, They Just Change Uniforms\u201d \u2013 6<\/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
Victims of the Stasi have learned that a large number of henchmen of the former East German dictatorship underwent a smooth transition into becoming \u201cfriends and helpers of democracy.\u201d Klaus Schroeder, a professor at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and an expert in the workings of the former East German communist party, says, \u201cFormer Stasi officers were able to become \u2018friends of democracy\u2019 because West German officials were led to believe that normal criminal investigations had been carried out in communist East Germany just as they were anywhere else \u2013 which of course is complete nonsense.\u201d<\/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 12 AUGUST 2009, MITTWOCH, 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 6<\/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 Und nun erfahren die Opfer, dass so mancher Handlanger der Diktatur nahtlos zum Freund und Helfer in der Demokratie wurde. Prof. Klaus Schr\u00f6der, Forschungsverbund SED, FU Berlin: “Das liegt daran, dass viele West-Beamte, die nach 1990 in die neuen L\u00e4nder kamen, dass denen vorgegaukelt wurde, hier wurde Kriminalarbeit wie anderswo auch getan, was nat\u00fcrlich v\u00f6lliger Quatsch ist\u201c.<\/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\/ 12 AUGUST 2009, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cIn Germany, Old Secret Police Agents Never Die, They Just Change Uniforms\u201d \u2013 6 (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-1814","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\/1814","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=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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