Aktionsgruppe Banat Reconstructs Its Past; II: Secret Police Archives and Transitional Justice
Aktionsgruppe Banat Reconstructs Its Past; II: Secret Police Archives and Transitional Justice
Author(s): Cristina PetrescuSubject(s): History, Cultural history, History of ideas, Oral history, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: memory; Securitate archives; ethno-cultural identity; communism; transitional justice;
Summary/Abstract: This study represents the second part of an analysis focusing on Aktionsgruppe Banat and its members’ endeavors to reconstruct their pre-1989 common past. Based on documents from the archives of the former Securitate; this study addresses the concerted efforts of the Aktionsgruppe members to unmask all individuals who supplied the communist secret police with information about their activities in order to delimit themselves as a group from such wrongdoers. While their case was at the time interesting enough to be turned into teaching material for the secret police staff; their current endeavors to revisit their pre-1989 past with the help of documents from the Securitate files illustrates that Aktionsgruppe was a collective victim of this infamous institution; which proved unable to turn any of the group members into its collaborators.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXIII/2015
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 131-144
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
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