Shaping the Cultural and Educational Landscape in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ)

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-47
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone

scholarly journals Organizational Structure, Channels and Methods of Propaganda Work of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany, 1945–1949

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-221
Author(s):  
Roman Boldyrev ◽  
Jörg Morré
Keyword(s):  
East Germany ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Military Administration ◽  
West Berlin ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone ◽  
Total Welfare ◽  
The Ideal

Introduction. The paper deals with the issues of the propaganda system in the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany (SOZ) between 1945 and 1949. Based on de-classified documents from Russian Archives propaganda organization, channels and methods of propaganda units of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAG) became a subject to study. The authors emphasize on control means towards German mass media and implementing the Soviet propaganda monopoly in East Germany. Methods and materials. The authors consequently analyze the main channels and methods of positive USSR image broadcasting: radio, press, SMAG propaganda unit lectures, people’s education system, activities of society for Soviet cultural studies, acquaintance trips of German delegations to the USSR, presentations of Soviet exhibitions and films. Analysis and Results. The authors come to a conclusion that the Soviet propaganda in East Germany had a low efficiency. It failed to establish a complete monopoly of Soviet propaganda units in East Germany. The SOZ population could access the propaganda from West Germany and West Berlin, which broadcast a radically negative image of the USSR. Besides, the units and institutions of the Group of Soviet Occupation Troops in Germany (GSOTG) created their own image of Soviet people, which was different from the ideal and broadcast one. Thus, it turned out to be impossible to provide the unification of the broadcast and perception of propagandist materials devoted to the USSR and its population. Soviet propaganda in Germany had gone through the transition by the late 1940s: division of Germany in two states appeared to be a reality, and the establishment of socialist society on Stalin’s model took place in East Germany. Ideological revisiting of the Soviet social constitution, and so its supremacy over the bourgeois one was to replace the conventional image of the country of total welfare and happiness.

scholarly journals Complex Geophysical Investigations under Extreme P,T–Conditions at Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde (ZIPE) (1970–1990)

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 412
Author(s):  
Hans J. Mueller ◽  
Heiner Vollstädt
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Extreme Pressure ◽  
German State ◽  
Lunar Material ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Earth Core ◽  
Synthetic Diamonds ◽  
Geophysical Investigations ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone

The development of the geophysical high pressure research in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) is described here. The GDR was a German state established in 1949 at the territory of the Soviet occupation zone. The different experimental investigations under extreme pressure and temperature conditions and their industrial applications, including the pilot manufacture of synthetic diamonds are explained. A review of the research topics pursued including experiments on lunar material and Earth core/mantle material is described.

scholarly journals “Zwischen allen Stühlen”: Reflections on Judaism in Germany in Victor Klemperer’s Post-Holocaust Diaries

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Sepp
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone

This article focuses as a case study on Victor Klemperer’s diaristic representation of German-Jewish identity and culture after 1945 in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR. The contribution shows how Klemperer’s professional and social situation remained very uncomfortable even in East Germany. For the diarist, the communist code ‘antifascist/fascist’, just like the code ‘German/un-German’ before it, was tantamount to concealing Jewish origin. His post-Holocaust journals provide an immediate insider’s view of Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust from the perspective of a victim of active persecution. Against this backdrop, the contribution examines how the author’s original German nationalism gradually makes way, caught between contradictory impulses of assimilation and decreed Jewish identity, for a much more complex understanding of his own cultural identity. Klemperer’s diaries highlight a number of tensions that ultimately reflect on the disjunction between living and writing: The divide between a single and changing self lies at the heart of his diaries after 1945, which depict an astute, complex psychogram of the assimilated German-Jewish bourgeoisie that survived the Holocaust and tried to continue living in communist Germany.

Komitet Białoruski w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie (1940–1945)

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 32-64
Author(s):  
Jerzy Grzybowski
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Divide And Conquer ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
General Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone

The subject of this study is the activity of the Belarusians in the General Government in 1940–1945. Belarusians were the fifth largest ethnic group in the GG. The German occupation authorities, applying the principle of “divide and conquer”, were ready to give Belarusians some freedom in the sphere of culture, religion and economy. In 1940, the Belarusian Committee was established in Warsaw, with branches in Biała Podlaska and Kraków. The majority of committee members were Belarusians and Poles – prisoners of war and refugees from the Soviet occupation zone of Poland. As a priority of this organization, cultural, educational and religious activities among the Belarusians in the General Government were recognized. The activists of the committee managed to create a school in Warsaw and two parishes (Orthodox and Catholic). Belarusian activities faced some difficulties. Serious problems for the Belarusians Committee caused the activities of Ukrainian organizations in the GG. One of the episodes in the history of the Belarusian Committee is the cooperation of its activists with German military intelligence.

Hanns Eisler and Faust in the German Democratic Republic

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-220
Author(s):  
Joy H. Calico
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
East German ◽  
National Identity Formation ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone

When Austrian composer and committed Marxist Hanns Eisler was forced out of the United States in 1948, he returned to Vienna and hoped to settle there. Instead, a commission for Goethe’s bicentennial celebration the following year drew him to East Berlin and the SBZ (Soviet Occupation Zone), soon to be the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany), and set him on the path to be that country’s most prominent composer. This chapter examines the piece Eisler wrote for that commission, Rhapsodie für großes Orchester (Rhapsody for large orchestra) (1949), which set text from Goethe’s Faust II, as well as his libretto for a proposed opera entitled Johann Faustus. East German reception of these pieces reveals the centrality of Goethe’s Faust for national identity formation in the fledgling GDR.

scholarly journals Everyday Life of the Victors in the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany in the Memoirs of Participants in the Events

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1174-1213
Author(s):  
Elke Scherstjanoi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Perspective View ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone

Many years of work resulted in a book on the everyday life of Soviet military and civil personnel of the Soviet occupation forces and administration in Germany in 1945–49. The current state of research does not allow a generalized socio-cultural overview as yet, but contemporary witnesses can provide us with interesting ego-sources. Twelve of such sources, flanked by rare photographs, were compiled into a book which is intended for broad readership in Germany and suggests a multi-perspective view of the new beginning in Germany after the end of the war in 1945. The article contains a fragment of the introduction to the book.

scholarly journals Obračun sa titoistima u sovjetskoj okupacionoj zoni Nemačke: Slučaj Leonard

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-164
Author(s):  
Natalija Dimić
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone ◽  
Socialist Unity

The aim of this article is to analyze the position of the Yugoslav representatives in Berlin and Yugoslav propaganda in Germany prior to and following the Yugoslav-Soviet split, as well as the mechanisms which the leadership of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany used in dealing with the opposition within the party ranks. It follows the activities of a German communist, Wolfgang Leonhard, in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany, his escape to Yugoslavia in 1949, and his arrival to West Germany in 1950. The article is based on the unpublished documents from German and Serbian archives, Wolfgang Leonhard’s memoirs, and relevant literature.

National Socialist Medical Literature and the Censorship Practices in the Soviet Occupation Zone and Early East German State

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-323
Author(s):  
Igor J Polianski
Keyword(s):  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Medical Discourse ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
German State ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
East German ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone

Abstract This study examines how medical discourse and culture were affected by the denazification policies of the Soviet occupation authorities in East Germany. Examining medical textbooks in particular, it reveals how the production and dissemination of medical knowledge was subject to a complex process of negotiation among authors, publishers, and censorship officials. Drawing on primary-source material produced by censorship authorities that has not been rigorously examined to date, it reveals how knowledge production processes were structured by broader ideological and political imperatives. It thus sheds new light on a unique chapter in the history of censorship.

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