By Juan Espindola
How do societies transitioning from oppressive to democratic rule carry responsible these electorate who contributed to conserving injustice within the historic regime through secretly denouncing fellow voters? Is their public identity a fashion of gratifying recognize in the event you suffered damage due to their collaboration? And is public identity respectful of denunciators themselves? This publication pursues those questions via a multidisciplinary research targeting the denunciators for the East German mystery police and the Ministry of kingdom safeguard and how during which they've been publicly unveiled in modern German society. The publication evaluates the reasons that social actors provide to aid or oppose public identifications; how detailed collaborators react to this social perform; and no matter if it achieves its meant objective. At each level, the ebook asks even if the motivations and the implications of public identifications honor or undermine the price of recognize for individuals.
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Lavinia Stan, “Introduction,” 1–14. 3 In contrast to this characterization, other scholars believe that despite its controlling vocation (which they intimate is oftentimes overstated), the regime had some degree of flexibility and commanded some loyalty from East Germans, allowing them to lead ordinary lives. This disagreement is reflected in the profusion of terms used to describe the GDR. 4 For the purposes of this book, we do not need to settle this debate. I prefer to adopt a different approach, one that starts by underscoring the nature of the GDR’s socialist project.
3 RESPECT AND ITS RELATIVES With this succinct conceptual framework on the background, it should be easier to grasp the relationship between respect, on the one hand, and terms such as reputation, civic courage, responsibility, apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation on the other. In this section, I will sketch these relationships with regard to the case of public exposures of collaborators, but also, more generally, with an eye on broader transitional justice cases. 43 Reputation refers to the estimation that someone possesses in the eyes of others on account of this or that quality.
The evidence seems to suggest the former. Comprehensive surveillance was without a doubt the Stasi’s aspiration. 9 The main point of targeted surveillance was to discourage opposition to the GDR by having informers convince the target to abandon whatever plan he or she had (an attempt to escape from the GDR, antiregime graffiti, and so on). When this failed, the secret police increased pressure by recourse to mild threats, such as blackmail 8 Bruce, The Firm, 140. 9 Bruce, The Firm, 11. The Regime, the Secret Police 45 (threatening with criminal prosecution, uncovering a dark episode in someone’s history, thwarting professional careers).