With a work conference in January, the Berlin, forschungsverbund SED-staat starts his new large-scale project to deaths of GDR citizens at the borders of the former Eastern bloc. The Free University-based research group, together with Teams at the universities of Potsdam and Greifswald in June of 2018, will receive from the German Federal Ministry of education and research (BMBF) awarded a research consortium that is funded with three million euros for a four-year. FU failed escape attempts at the borders such as the Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland studied, where the GDR died citizens. The University of Greifswald researched deaths during escape attempts across the Baltic sea, at the University of Potsdam the role of the East German judiciary in the prosecution of would-be emigrants and detained refugees, such as the forschungsverbund SED-staat told now.
The previous study is controversial
been doubted, was The predecessor study, according to the intra-German border, 327 people died, as reported in November last year by a research team of the RBB. This includes a minimum of 50 cases to the effect that some offenders have been made to Victims. State Minister for culture Monika Grütters (CDU) wanted the cases to check. The forschungsverbund SED-staat rejected the allegations. He had referred to in his study, explicitly including “deaths, in the exercise of the GDR-border service”.
in Total, the BMBF is funding a 40 million Euro 14 nationwide research consortia, to the GDR research in the German science landscape. In Berlin, the Humboldt-Uni myths with the project “education – a dictatorship and its aftermath”, the German Institute for International Educational research (DIPF), and the universities are involved in Hildesheim, Germany and Rostock. The HU is also a leader in research on the detection and analysis of the political Repression in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR, the memorial Berlin-hohenschönhausen, the Charité Berlin and the Viadrina are here. A project on mental health in the GDR, the Berlin-based Robert Koch Institute is involved. In a project to modernization blockages in the economy and science of the GDR, the TU Berlin is working with.
