Defending the Nation or Violating Human Rights? The Autobiographical Memory of Former Border Soldiers of the GDR after 1990

本项目通过对前东德边境士兵的生活故事的采访，分析了政治、集体和个人记忆之间的联系。鉴于对统一进程的缺陷和对东德经验的忽视的持续争论，它将把在关于纪念东德的辩论中没有得到承认的人的声音带到前面。该项目将探讨他们如何看待自己的兵役，以及他们的解释如何与司法审查以及关于统一德国“达成协议”的政治和媒体辩论发生变化。

This project analyses the connection between politics, collective and individual memory by exploring acollection of life story interviews with former border soldiers of the GDR. In light of onging debates aboutthe shortcomings of the unification process and the disregard of East German experiences, it will bringthe voices of men which have no recognition in debates about the commemoration of the GDR to thefore. The project will explore how they perceived their military service and how their interpretationschanged with the judicial scrutiny and political and media debates about the "coming to terms" in unifiedGermany.