Article ID: CBB668031268

Illusions of care: Iraqi students between the Ba’thist State and the Stasi in socialist East Germany, 1958–89 (2018)

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For four decades, Iraqi students came to the German Democratic Republic for education, political refuge, or to burnish their credentials. In 1969, Iraq opened diplomatic relations with the GDR, simultaneously extending its persecution of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) into East Germany by means of a complex bureaucratic apparatus of diplomatic organs, security services and student organisations. While ICP members were eventually protected by the Stasi, this entangled them in a system that offered care at the cost of obedience. The on-going campaign against ICP students ultimately played an outsized role in undermining the relationship between the SED and the Iraqi Ba’th.

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Authors & Contributors
Urbansky, Sören
Burton, Eric
Felix Robin Schulz
Christian Booß
Herrala, Meri Elisabet
Zofka, Jan
Concepts
Cold War
International relations
Political science
Geopolitics
Communism
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
East Germany
United States
Middle and Near East
Germany
Hungary
China
Institutions
Stasi [Ministerium für Staatssicherheit]
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
KGB
International Red Cross
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