The Russians in Germany : a history of the Soviet Zone of occupation, 1945-1949
In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Now, making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Naimark reveals what happened during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany from 1945 through 1949. His book offers a comprehensive look at Soviet policies in the occupied zone and their practical consequences for Germans and Russians alike - and, ultimately, for postwar Europe. In rich and lucid detail, Naimark captures the mood and the daily reality of the occupation, the chaos and contradictions of a period marked by rape and repression, the plundering of factories, the exploitation of German science, and the rise of the East German police state
Print Book, English, 1995
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995
xv, 586 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780674784055, 9780674784062, 0674784057, 0674784065
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1. From Soviet to German Administration
2. Soviet Soldiers, German Women, and the Problem of Rape
3. Reparations, Removals, and the Economic Transformation of the Zone
4. The Soviet Use of German Science
5. The Soviets and the German Left
6. The Tiul'panov Question and Soviet Policy-making in the Zone
7. Building the East German Police State
8. The Politics of Culture and Education
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