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The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cIn Germany, Old Secret Police Agents Never Die, They Just Change Uniforms\u201d \u2013 21<\/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
\u201cTotally wrong to promote him\u201d may well apply to each of two officers assigned to German Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s Brandenburg security detail. This group is ultimately the responsibility of Brandenburg Justice Minister Schoenbohm, one of Merkel\u2019s CDU party colleagues. The Chancellor probably does not know who in the police force assigns the 24-hour guards for her weekend house in Uckermark, but what is ironical is that among those guards there are two former Stasi officers in leadership positions. One of them worked for years in Stasi Department III, which was responsible for listening in to telephone calls from the West.<\/p>\n Sonia Mikich, Reporter: \u201cAnd so, Ms. Merkel, we wish you a happy and well-protected weekend.\u201d<\/strong><\/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 9 SEPTEMBER 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 21<\/p>\n “V\u00f6llig falsch aufgehoben” sind diese Stasi-Leute wohl auch bei ihr. Angela Merkel wei\u00df wahrscheinlich nicht, wer unter ihrem Parteifreund Sch\u00f6nbohm in der Brandenburger Polizei verantwortlich ist f\u00fcr die Bewachung ihres Wochenendhauses – und das 24 Stunden. Verantwortlich daf\u00fcr ist der “Schutzbereich Uckermark”. Pikant: Auch hier gibt es zwei ehemalige Stasi-Offiziere in Leitungsfunktionen. Einer war jahrelang in der Stasi-Abteilung III, die war unter anderem zust\u00e4ndig f\u00fcr das Abh\u00f6ren von Telefongespr\u00e4chen aus dem Westen.<\/p>\n Sonia Mikich: “Na dann, Frau Merkel, ein sch\u00f6nes und besch\u00fctztes Wochenende!”<\/strong><\/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\/ 9 SEPTEMBER 2009, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cIn Germany, Old Secret Police Agents Never Die, They Just Change Uniforms\u201d \u2013 21 (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-1881","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\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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