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2On these issues, see my article, “‘It Should Have Been Written Here’: Germany and The Black Book of Communism” (Rodden Citation2001a).
3See “On Disbelieving Atrocities” by Arthur Koestler (Citation1967).
4On the art and skill of listening as well as its potential for psychological and social healing, see my epilogue in Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent: Stories of East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse (Rodden Citation2010). I also address this topic in the epilogue of The Walls That Remain: Western and Eastern Germans Since Reunification (Rodden Citation2008).
5These prominent personages in modern German history are profiled in The Walls That Remain: Western and Eastern Germans Since Reunification (Rodden Citation2008) and in Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945–1995 (Rodden Citation2001b).
6I tell the story of both organizers and other GDR political prisoners in Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent: Stories of East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse (Rodden Citation2010: xii–xv).
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John Rodden
John Rodden is the author of Dialectics, Dogmas and Dissent: Stories of East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse (Penn State University Press 2010), among other books. He has written extensively on human rights abuse in Nazi Germany and communist East Germany for publications such as Human Rights Review, Society, Dissent, The Midwest Quarterly, and Salmagundi.