() is a widely acclaimed non-fiction book by historian Hubertus Knabe, published in German by Propyläen in 2007. It deals with the legacy of the totalitarian communist dictatorship in East Germany, the lack of accountability for many communist perpetrators of crimes against humanity, and the whitewashing of the communist regime's history by the successor of the communist party ("The Left"). Knabe shows how human rights and international law were systematically violated by the communist regime, and attacks so-called Ostalgie, that is, tendencies to romanticize life in the communist dictatorship.
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