17 AUGUST 2009, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cIn Germany, Old Secret Police Agents Never Die, They Just Change Uniforms\u201d \u2013 8<\/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
Flashback to September 1986: the German Democratic Republic (communist East Germany) will exist for only three more years. A young man goes to a streetcar stop in Potsdam and scrawls \u201canti-state\u201d slogans on the timetables posted there: \u201cGet rid of the missiles.\u201d \u201cAsk what the people want.\u201d \u201cPeace please\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m appalled at the Wall.\u201d He\u2019s later sentenced to eighteen months in prison for these scrawls, and it was the Stasi first lieutenant pictured here who led the investigation and wrote up the required \u201cpolitical and criminal evaluation\u201d of the offender. Today, this same former Stasi first lieutenant is an upper-level civil servant and official in the criminal investigation department of the Potsdam police.<\/p>\n And this is not an isolated case.<\/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 17 AUGUST 2009, MONTAG, 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 8<\/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 R\u00fcckblende: September 1986, die DDR wird es nur noch drei Jahre geben. Ein junger Mann f\u00e4hrt in Potsdam zu einer Stra\u00dfenbahnhaltestelle und kritzelt staatsfeindliche Parolen auf die Fahrpl\u00e4ne: “Raketen raus. Volk befragen”, schreibt er. “Peace please” und “Ich bin sauer auf die Mauer”. Sp\u00e4ter wird er f\u00fcr seine Kritzeleien zu einem Jahr und acht Monaten Gef\u00e4ngnis verurteilt. Die Ermittlungen gef\u00fchrt hat zu DDR-Zeiten dieser Oberleutnant der Staatssicherheit. Er verfasst auch die “politische und strafrechtliche Einsch\u00e4tzung” des Delinquenten. Heute arbeitet der Stasi- Mann hier: bei der Kriminalpolizei Potsdam – im gehobenen Dienst. <\/p>\n Kein Einzelfall.<\/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\/ 17 AUGUST 2009, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cIn Germany, Old Secret Police Agents Never Die, They Just Change Uniforms\u201d \u2013 8 (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-1826","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\/1826","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=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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