Lustraţie de catifea. Politica de reconsiderare critică a comunismului în Germania
Velvet Lustration. The Policy of Critical Reassessment of Communism in Germany

Summary/Abstract: The study divides the issues of critical reassessment of communism in Germany into several sub-themes: the fall of the communist regime and the unification of Germany, the creation of the federal Office for studying the archives of the former East Germany Secret Police – Stasi and the law for access to the files of the secret police, political reassessment by the Bundestag investigative commission, scientific, historical and artistic reassessment, legal reassessment, lawsuits against those responsible for lawbreaking in the former GDR, the rehabilitation of victims and the abuses of East-German justice. The author points out that only a small percentage of the 2.3 million party members experienced any consequences to their careers of their former status, and those were the ones that had been official or unofficial collaborators of Stasi. The latter were considered to be incompatible with the status of judge, public servant, teacher or policeman. However, not all unofficial collaborators were kept out of public service, around half remained. The conclusion is that those responsible for the former regime have not suffered any serious consequences.

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