Praise for the German Edition: "This publication will spark a
discussion about the role of the Catholic Church leadership in the
GDR." . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
From 1945 to 1989, relations between the communist East German
state and the Catholic Church were contentious and sometimes
turbulent. Drawing on extensive Stasi materials and other
government and party archives, this study provides the first
systematic overview of this complex relationship and offers many
new insights into the continuities, changes, and entanglements of
policies and strategies on both sides. Previously undiscovered
records in church archives contribute to an analysis of regional
and sectoral conflicts within the Church and various shades of
cooperation between nominal antagonists. The volume also explores
relations between the GDR and the Vatican and addresses the
oft-neglected communist "church business" controversially made in
exchange for hard Western currency.
Bernd Schaefer is a Senior Research Scholar with the Woodrow
Wilson International Center's Cold War International History
Project (CWIHP) in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a Research
Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., as
well as a Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, and the
Hannah Arendt Institute at the Technische Universitat in Dresden,
Germany. His previous publications (as co-editor) include
Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: Global and European Responses (2009);
Historical Justice in International Perspective (2009); and
American Detente and German Ostpolitik (2004). Between 1993 and
1997, he served as secretary for the East German Catholic Church's
Stasi lustration commission in Berlin.
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