By Dolores L. Augustine
"This great examine of the "new technical intelligentsia" in East Germany analyzes the ambivalent interplay among engineering pros and the SED dictatorship, exploring the promise of socialist modernity, the tightening of Stasi keep an eye on and the failure of innovation in excessive technology."--Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of ecu Civilization on the college of North Carolina and Senior Fellow, Zentrum f?r Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam (Konrad Jarausch )
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The atmosphere seemed “liberal” (again, in comparison with the Soviet Union): In East Germany, the Communist Party ruled in coalition with four “democratic” parties; scientists and engineers were not required to join a party; they could attend conferences in the West and bring back Western literature; and there was no East German army. Skeptical about Western-style parliamentary democracy, Barwich was willing to give the East German system a chance. ” However, unhappy about the building of the Berlin Wall and the increasing political pressure on scientists in the GDR, Barwich fled to the West in 1964.
However, recent studies such as that by Christoph Mick show that popular assumptions about the extent of those contributions are greatly exaggerated. Albring emphasizes that Sputnik was not German-built. 19 But the Germans learned little from Soviet research, according to Mick. They were not allowed to interact with their Soviet counterparts, nor were they given access to Soviet research results. This is particularly odd since Soviet research teams were conducting parallel research. However, the parallel research gave the Soviet leadership a method for checking German results for signs of deception, sabotage, lack of motivation, or incompetence, while spurring Soviet scientists and engineers to a maximal effort.
Industrial physicist Kurt Berner found these camps an improvement over the prison camps in Soviet-occupied Germany, where he (a former Nazi Party member) had spent over two years. However, hunger and deprivation were part and parcel of the hard lives of rocketry researchers in Berner’s camp in the Soviet Union. 31 Dealing with Communism, Encountering Russia German memoir writers tend to depict the Soviet system and Russian culture as two distinctive entities, and their accounts of the two reveal interesting things about the strategies they developed in trying to deal with the power the Soviets had over them and in coming to an understanding of their place in that system.
