| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) |
| Contents |
The files -- The beginning -- People -- Property -- Work -- Families -- Punishments -- The party -- Hopes and lies -- The end |
| Summary |
As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court, she knew that she had finally found her mailbox. Combining her work in this extraordinary archive with interviews of former plaintiffs and defendants, judges and prosecutors, government and party functionaries, and Stasi collaborators, all in the little town she calls "Lüritz," Markovits has wri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Germany (East) -- History -- Case studies
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Justice, Administration of -- Germany (East) -- History -- Case studies
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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LAW -- Legal History.
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Justice, Administration of
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Law
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Germany (East)
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400836598 |
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140083659X |
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