Judging the Past in Unified Germany

by A. James McAdams

Book Overview

In recent years, no modern democracy has taken more aggressive steps to come to terms with a legacy of dictatorship than has the Federal Republic of Germany with the crimes and injustices of Communist East Germany. In this book, A. James McAdams provides a comprehensive and engaging examination of the four most prominent instances of this policy: criminal trials for the killings at the Berlin Wall; the disqualification of administrative personnel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521001390
• ISBN13: 9780521001397
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"