Victims Organizations and Dynamics of Recognition in West Germany, 1945-1975

在研究小组的整体方法中，这个项目做出了真正的历史贡献。它以1945年后的西德为重点，以受害者组织作为行动者为重点，探讨了对受害者身份（与纳粹政权及其罪行的受害者有关）的社会、政治和文化认识的动态。该项目的目的是一个历史专著，超越了仅仅叙述众所周知的和彻底分析的发展领域的赔偿和赔偿纳粹罪行和纳粹迫害（现在从受害者的角度）。相反，在目前一般过渡时期司法领域的发展和研究以及受害者在接受宏观犯罪方面的作用的背景下，本项目对承认受害者身份的动态很感兴趣。以1945年后的西德为例，系统地分析了不同受害者群体之间的竞争动态。但是，本文也将着眼于受害者组织的作用，探讨“受害者”概念的历史性和社会建构，以及受害者身份的定义和归属。因此，它将尝试进一步发展我们在这一研究背景下的分析可能性。

Within the overall approach of the research group this project makes a genuinely historical contribution. Concentrating on post-1945 West Germany and focussing on victims' organizations as actors, it addresses the dynamics of the social, political and cultural recognition of victimhood (related to victims of the Nazi regime and its crimes). The aim of the project is a historical monograph going beyond a mere narration of well known and thoroughly analyzed developments in the realm of compensation and reparation of Nazi crimes and Nazi persecution (now from a victims¿ perspective). Instead, against the background of current developments and research in the field of Transitional Justice in general and of the role of victims in coming to terms with macro criminality, the project is interested in the dynamics of recognition of victimhood. Using West Germany after 1945 as a reference case, it will systematically analyze the dynamics of rivalry between various groups of victims. But concentrating on the role of victims' organizations it will also look at the historicity and the social construction of the concept "victim", the definition and ascription of victimhood. By this token, it will try to further develop our analytical possibilities in this research context.