Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent: Stories from East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse

by John Rodden

Germany underwent two periods of dictatorial repression in the twentieth century, first under Hitler and the Nazis in the late 1930s and early 1940s and then under the communist German Democratic Republic from 1945 until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The abuses of human rights under the Nazis are well known and now abundantly documented. The abuses that occurred during the period of the GDR, however, are not so well known and are poorly documented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271036125
• ISBN13: 9780271036120
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"