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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Stasi Brainwashing in the GDR 1957 - 1990

Solbrig, Jacob H., Solbrig, Jacob Hagen 20 December 2017 (has links)
This thesis examines the methods used by the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), more commonly known as the Stasi, or East German secret police, for extraction of information from citizens of the German Democratic Republic for the purpose of espionage and covert operations inside East Germany, as it pertains to the deliberate brainwashing of East German citizens. As one of the most efficient intelligence agencies to ever exist, the Stasi’s main purpose was to monitor the population, gather intelligence, and collect or turn informants. They used brainwashing techniques to control the people of the GDR, keeping the populace paralyzed with fear and paranoia. By surrounding themselves with a network of informants they prevented actions against the dictatorial communist regime. Using the video testimonies of former prisoners, and former confidential informants who worked closely with and collaborated with Stasi agents, in combination with periodicals and previous historical studies, this work argues that the East German Police State’s brainwashing techniques had long and lasting consequences both for German citizens, and for the psychiatric health of former GDR citizens. The scope and breadth of the techniques and data compiled for use by the Stasi were exhaustive, and the repercussions of their use are still being felt and discovered twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This study aims to show the lasting effects brainwashing had on former informants and the Stasi’s victims.
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Einzelpersuasion als Kernstück der DDR-Auswanderungspolitik

Klabunde, Fabian Heinz-Dieter 04 May 2020 (has links)
Die Arbeit erforscht das Politikfeld der Auswanderungspolitik in der DDR zwischen 1949 und 1989 in Form einer Policy-Analyse. Sie untergliedert sich in drei Fragstellungen: Lässt sich eine charakteristisch auswanderungspolitische Kombination von Steuerungsinstrumenten nachweisen? Welche Funktion erfüllten spezifische Policy-Akteure? In welchem Verhältnis standen sie zu den Policy-Phasen? Quellengrundlage ist die Aktenhinterlassenschaft der Ministerien des Inneren und für Staatssicherheit einerseits sowie die Protokolle von Politbüro und Ministerrat andererseits. Untersucht wird die Darstellung des Auswanderungsproblems, der eigenen Handlungsmotive, der Wirksamkeit der Steuerungsinstrumente und anderer Akteure. Die theoretischen Folien für die Politikfeldanalyse sind die Totalitarismustheorie von Carl Friedrich, die Theorie der Coercive Persuasion (Zwangspersuasion) von Edgar Schein, sowie der Begriff des Eigen-Sinn von Alf Lüdtke. Die Arbeit legt ihren innovativen Schwerpunkt auf das Steuerungsinstrument der „Einzelpersuasion“. Damit ist der hier als totalitär qualifizierte Aufwand gemeint, mit dem das Regime versuchte, die Abwanderung durch individuelles Zureden in den Griff zu bekommen. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass während der gesamten SED-Herrschaft ein spezifisches Set weiterer Steuerungsinstrumente – im Sinne der Theorie der Zwangspersuasion – zur Unterstützung der Einzelpersuasion eingesetzt wurden. Dazu gehörten die berühmt gewordenen auswanderungspolitischen Instrumente des Zwangs wie Berliner Mauer, Schießbefehl und Republikflucht-Paragraph einerseits und der negativen Anreize durch die Diskriminierung von Auswanderungswilligen andererseits. Policy-Zyklen werden mit den Zäsuren in den Jahren 1952, 1953, 1958, 1961, 1975 und 1989 identifiziert. Mit Blick auf die Einflussnahme diverser auswärtiger Akteure auf die Policyphase des Agendasetting für die Auswanderungspolitik wird eine auswanderungspolitische DDR-Außenpolitik identifiziert. / The dissertation explores the emigration policy in the GDR between 1949 and 1989 by means of a policy analysis. It breaks down into three questions: Is it possible to detect a characteristic set of emigration policy instruments? Which policy actors can be identified and what was their relevance in specific policy phases during the policy process? The policy history is examined through an archival analysis based on the huge body of files left over from the ministries of internal affairs and state security as well as minutes from Politbureau and Council of Ministers. The study examines the presentation and perception of the emigration problem, the subjective motives, the effectiveness of policy instruments and the perception of other players. This policy analysis is based on several theories – Carl Friedrich’s Totalitarianism, Edgar Schein’s Coercive Persuasion and Alf Lüdtke’s Eigen-Sinn. The study’s innovative emphasis lies on the policy instrument of „Einzelpersuasion“ (individual persuasion). This refers to the totalitarian effort with which the regime tried to prevent emigration attempts by personal cajolery. The study will show that during the entire SED rule a specific set of additional policy instruments were used to support the individual persuasion according to the theory of Coercive Persuasion. These included on the one hand the infamous coercive emigration policy instruments such as the Berlin Wall, the shoot-on-sight order and the criminal provisions for Republikflucht (escaping GDR). On the other hand, there were always negative incentive instruments discriminating against people intending to emigrate. Policy cycles with remarkable policy reformulation are identified in 1952, 1953, 1958, 1961 with the Berlin Wall, 1975 and 1989. Referring to the influence of various foreign actors on the policy phase of agenda setting for emigration policy the study identifies an “emigration-driven foreign policy”.

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