Gary Bruce
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Bruce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruce |
| SIGNATURE | BRUCE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adam Bisno. Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy
Warsaw Ghetto Police
Reviewed by: Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation by Katarzyna Person Gary Bruce Person, Katarzyna–Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 232 p. In the late summer of 1942, the Jewish Order Service of the Warsaw ghetto brought roughly 6,000 people a day to the Umschlagplatz, where German authorities then deported them to Treblinka. The…
The Truths that East Germany held to be Self-evident
Readers familiar with the broad outline of the East German regime’s dismal conduct against its own population—a popular revolution crushed in June 1953, a mass exodus of nearly one in six of the population that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a massive secret police with almost unlimited power to alter lives, shoot-to-kill orders at the German-German frontier, and lining its pockets by selling its prisoners to the West—will no…
M’Pungu between Charles Darwin and Wolfgang Köhler
This article, a contribution to the growing field of animal-human history, traces scientific understanding of the great apes over the course of two centuries, with an emphasis on the period from 1850 to 1920. It sets the changing perceptions of apes within the context of intellectual developments, including the revolution sparked by Darwin and continued by a number of lesser-known scientists who studied apes. The important economic and societal a…
Resistance and Daily Life in East Germany
This article employs the ‘second chapter’ of the history of daily life (Alltagsgeschichte) to examine grass-roots resistance to the communist system in the former East German district of Gransee. It has two primary goals. First, it posits a bridge between the two solitudes of ‘resistance’ history and ‘daily life’ history. Typically, historians of daily life have not examined resistance in East Germany, nor have historians of resistance used the m…
Geheime Kommunikationsräume? Die Staatssicherheit an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
For some time now, the trend in studies of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi, has been away from grand narratives toward microhistories. The prolific Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, for one, has investigated select aspects of Stasi work, such as its telephone monitoring, or its role during the June 17 uprising of 1953, while other researchers associated with the Federal Commission for the Stasi Files have taken a terr…
B ernhard G issibl . The Nature of German Imperialism
In The Nature of German Imperialism, Bernhard Gissibl ranges over a number of subfields of history with an ease that astonishes. At once imperial history, transnational history, gender history, domestic German history, and animal-human history, Gissibl’s exhaustive work is a multilayered account of wildlife management as it related to colonial governance in what was then German East Africa. In a somewhat unconventional organization, Gissibl divid…
Harmful and Undesirable
For many scholars of Nazi Germany, book censorship is a hazy topic. Beyond the iconic book burning, which has received a good deal of attention, basic questions about Nazi censorship abound: what b
Out of Ashes
Reviewed by: Gary Bruce, University of WaterlooAs most travellers to Europe quickly realize, it is hard to sort out one's feelings about the continent. One can, for example, attend Berlin's Philharmonie, home to one of the world's greatest symphony orchestras. Before listening to the music inside, an interested tourist might be drawn to the small exhibition on the grounds of this German cultural icon. Here, she would learn that during the Nazi er…
From Perpetrator to Cold-War Pawn
Drawing on extensive documentation generated by East Germany's secret police (Stasi), this article examines the case of Heinz Barth, a participant in World War II massacres at Lidice, Czechoslovakia and Oradour, France. The Stasi's lengthy investigation and interrogation of Barth in the 1980s affords rare insight into the motivations of a perpetrator who was not involved in killing Jews or POWs, and reveals the arbitrariness of the secret police …
Patrick Major, Behind the Berlin Wall
Mary Fulbrook, The People's State
Bringing Culture to the Masses
East Germany
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Access to Secret Police Files, Justice, and Vetting in East Germany since 1989
In order to situate the current debate on whether the Federal Commission for the Files of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (the Stasi Archive) should cease to be an autonomous institution in the larger context, this article traces the history of the Stasi Archive and of the Stasi Files Law since 1989. Key to understanding the Stasi Archive and access to its files is the 1989 revolution which saw demonstrators de…
Joachim Scholtyseck, Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte , Vol. 69, Die Aussenpolitik der DDR
October 01 2006 Joachim Scholtyseck, Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, Vol. 69, Die Aussenpolitik der DDR Gary Bruce Gary Bruce Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gary Bruce Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Journal of Cold War Studies (2006) 8 (4): 155–157. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2006.8.4.155 Cite Icon Cite Permission…
In our District, the State Is Secure’
This article details the year 1989 in the East German District Perleberg up to the fall of the Wall as reflected in the documents of the Ministry for State Security – the Stasi. It seeks to introduce empirical evidence on the course of the revolution in the towns of East Germany, an area which has received much less scholarly attention than larger centres. The article argues that in this particular outlying district, the generally accepted key fa…
The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany
Many observers have been puzzled by the extent of the uprising that swept through East Germany in June 1953, given the legendary efficiency of the East German state security (Stasi) forces and their vast network of informants. Some scholars have even attempted to explain the Stasi's inability to foresee and prevent the uprising by arguing that the Stasi conspired with the demonstrators. The opening of the archives of the former German Democratic …
Liberal Diplomacy and German Unification
Modern Germany
From Perpetrator to Cold-War Pawn
Drawing on extensive documentation generated by East Germany's secret police (Stasi), this article examines the case of Heinz Barth, a participant in World War II massacres at Lidice, Czechoslovakia and Oradour, France. The Stasi's lengthy investigation and interrogation of Barth in the 1980s affords rare insight into the motivations of a perpetrator who was not involved in killing Jews or POWs, and reveals the arbitrariness of the secret police …
Access to Secret Police Files, Justice, and Vetting in East Germany since 1989
In order to situate the current debate on whether the Federal Commission for the Files of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (the Stasi Archive) should cease to be an autonomous institution in the larger context, this article traces the history of the Stasi Archive and of the Stasi Files Law since 1989. Key to understanding the Stasi Archive and access to its files is the 1989 revolution which saw demonstrators de…
The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany
Many observers have been puzzled by the extent of the uprising that swept through East Germany in June 1953, given the legendary efficiency of the East German state security (Stasi) forces and their vast network of informants. Some scholars have even attempted to explain the Stasi's inability to foresee and prevent the uprising by arguing that the Stasi conspired with the demonstrators. The opening of the archives of the former German Democratic …
Modern Germany
Liberal Diplomacy and German Unification
The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany
Many observers have been puzzled by the extent of the uprising that swept through East Germany in June 1953, given the legendary efficiency of the East German state security (Stasi) forces and their vast network of informants. Some scholars have even attempted to explain the Stasi's inability to foresee and prevent the uprising by arguing that the Stasi conspired with the demonstrators. The opening of the archives of the former German Democratic …
In our District, the State Is Secure’
This article details the year 1989 in the East German District Perleberg up to the fall of the Wall as reflected in the documents of the Ministry for State Security – the Stasi. It seeks to introduce empirical evidence on the course of the revolution in the towns of East Germany, an area which has received much less scholarly attention than larger centres. The article argues that in this particular outlying district, the generally accepted key fa…
Joachim Scholtyseck, Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte , Vol. 69, Die Aussenpolitik der DDR
October 01 2006 Joachim Scholtyseck, Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, Vol. 69, Die Aussenpolitik der DDR Gary Bruce Gary Bruce Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gary Bruce Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Journal of Cold War Studies (2006) 8 (4): 155–157. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2006.8.4.155 Cite Icon Cite Permission…
Access to Secret Police Files, Justice, and Vetting in East Germany since 1989
In order to situate the current debate on whether the Federal Commission for the Files of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (the Stasi Archive) should cease to be an autonomous institution in the larger context, this article traces the history of the Stasi Archive and of the Stasi Files Law since 1989. Key to understanding the Stasi Archive and access to its files is the 1989 revolution which saw demonstrators de…
East Germany
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mary Fulbrook, The People's State
Bringing Culture to the Masses
Patrick Major, Behind the Berlin Wall
From Perpetrator to Cold-War Pawn
Drawing on extensive documentation generated by East Germany's secret police (Stasi), this article examines the case of Heinz Barth, a participant in World War II massacres at Lidice, Czechoslovakia and Oradour, France. The Stasi's lengthy investigation and interrogation of Barth in the 1980s affords rare insight into the motivations of a perpetrator who was not involved in killing Jews or POWs, and reveals the arbitrariness of the secret police …
Harmful and Undesirable
For many scholars of Nazi Germany, book censorship is a hazy topic. Beyond the iconic book burning, which has received a good deal of attention, basic questions about Nazi censorship abound: what b
Out of Ashes
Reviewed by: Gary Bruce, University of WaterlooAs most travellers to Europe quickly realize, it is hard to sort out one's feelings about the continent. One can, for example, attend Berlin's Philharmonie, home to one of the world's greatest symphony orchestras. Before listening to the music inside, an interested tourist might be drawn to the small exhibition on the grounds of this German cultural icon. Here, she would learn that during the Nazi er…
Geheime Kommunikationsräume? Die Staatssicherheit an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
For some time now, the trend in studies of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi, has been away from grand narratives toward microhistories. The prolific Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, for one, has investigated select aspects of Stasi work, such as its telephone monitoring, or its role during the June 17 uprising of 1953, while other researchers associated with the Federal Commission for the Stasi Files have taken a terr…
B ernhard G issibl . The Nature of German Imperialism
In The Nature of German Imperialism, Bernhard Gissibl ranges over a number of subfields of history with an ease that astonishes. At once imperial history, transnational history, gender history, domestic German history, and animal-human history, Gissibl’s exhaustive work is a multilayered account of wildlife management as it related to colonial governance in what was then German East Africa. In a somewhat unconventional organization, Gissibl divid…
The Truths that East Germany held to be Self-evident
Readers familiar with the broad outline of the East German regime’s dismal conduct against its own population—a popular revolution crushed in June 1953, a mass exodus of nearly one in six of the population that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a massive secret police with almost unlimited power to alter lives, shoot-to-kill orders at the German-German frontier, and lining its pockets by selling its prisoners to the West—will no…
M’Pungu between Charles Darwin and Wolfgang Köhler
This article, a contribution to the growing field of animal-human history, traces scientific understanding of the great apes over the course of two centuries, with an emphasis on the period from 1850 to 1920. It sets the changing perceptions of apes within the context of intellectual developments, including the revolution sparked by Darwin and continued by a number of lesser-known scientists who studied apes. The important economic and societal a…
Resistance and Daily Life in East Germany
This article employs the ‘second chapter’ of the history of daily life (Alltagsgeschichte) to examine grass-roots resistance to the communist system in the former East German district of Gransee. It has two primary goals. First, it posits a bridge between the two solitudes of ‘resistance’ history and ‘daily life’ history. Typically, historians of daily life have not examined resistance in East Germany, nor have historians of resistance used the m…
Warsaw Ghetto Police
Reviewed by: Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation by Katarzyna Person Gary Bruce Person, Katarzyna–Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 232 p. In the late summer of 1942, the Jewish Order Service of the Warsaw ghetto brought roughly 6,000 people a day to the Umschlagplatz, where German authorities then deported them to Treblinka. The…
Adam Bisno. Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy
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