Word: magirius
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot decommunize a whole society overnight," says Friedrich Magirius, superintendent of Leipzig's Protestant churches, who notes that East Germany was "a typical dictatorship in which anybody who wanted to achieve something, to climb professionally, had to adapt." Hans Meyer, a law professor at the University of Frankfurt, argues that in East Germany the line between victim and criminal was perilously thin. "Very often," he says, "a person will have resisted in one respect but helped the regime in another...
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