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Abstract:
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An investigation of denunciators for the East German secret police, the Ministry of State Security and the way they have been publicly unveiled.
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Exposing Unofficial Collaborators -- 1.1 The Disclosures of Respect -- 1.2 Collaboration and Respect: A Framework -- 1.3 Respect and its Relatives -- 1.4 The Method and the Sources -- 1.5 An Outline of the Chapters -- 1.6 Ideological and Partisan Reductions -- 2 The Regime, the Secret Police, and Coming to Terms with the Past -- 2.1 A Web of Surveillance -- 2.2 The IM Network -- 2.3 The Trials and Errors of Vergangenheitsbewältigung -- 3 The Case(s) of the Litigating Spies: Public Shame, Reputation, and Respect -- 3.1 Veils of Anonymity and Pillories of Shame -- 3.2 The Right of Personality: Schubert, Take One -- 3.3 The List of Informers and the Courts: Balancing Publicity and Respect -- 3.4 The Law of the Archives: Reputation's Wedge -- 3.5 Resozialisierung and the Right to Forgetfulness: Schubert, Take Two -- 3.6 A Tale of Two (Harmful) Brothers -- 3.7 Conclusion: The Politics of Shame -- 4 Civic Interpellations: Denunciation as Self-Disrespect -- 4.1 The Rhetoric of Zivilcourage -- 4.2 The Filth of Denunciation: Shaming Interpellations -- Categorization -- Public Performances -- 4.3 Citizens and Barbarians: Encouraging Civic Courage -- The Stasi Files: Archives of Zivilcourage -- The Barbarization Thesis -- Exposing Barbarians: On Public Dishonor -- 4.4 Dirty Hands and Respect: When in Doubt, Out -- 4.5 Failed Interpellation? -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 Stasi Agents as Responsible Agents? Responsibility and Respect -- 5.1 The Complexity of Responsibility and the Fine Line of Respect -- 5.2 The Most Important Weapon Against the Enemy -- 5.3 Forfeiting One's Soul: The Recalcitrance of Personal Intentions -- 5.4 Displacing Responsibility: Why Wut Is Not Mut -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6 An Apology for Public Apologies: A Matter of Respect?.
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