Die DDR--eine deutsche Geschichte

German Festschriften provide an opportunity for the close colleagues and doctoral students of a German Ordinarius to pay homage to a venerable scholar toward the close of his or her career, and usually consist of essays related in some way to, or inspired by, that scholar’s own œuvre. The Festschrift under review here is dedicated to Werner Müller, a prolific professor of modern German history at the University of Rostock, a maritime city located in the territory of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Müller’s main area of expertise is the GDR itself, and all of the essays in this volume focus on some aspect of the now defunct socialist state. The editors, Detlev Brunner and Mario Niemann, argue in a programmatic introduction that East Germany must be viewed as more than just a Soviet ‘satrapy’ (to use Hans-Ulrich Wehler’s dismissive term). Echoing similar calls by other scholars, they

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