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- Title
Provisional State, Reluctant Institutions: West Berlin's Refugee Service and Refugee Commissions, 1949–1952.
- Authors
Limbach, Eric H.
- Abstract
In May 1951, the Hamburger Freie Presse published an article on the alleged experiences of Hans Schmidt, an East German police officer (Volkspolizist) who had sought to register earlier that year for political asylum in West Berlin. The newspaper profile followed the twenty-one-year-old Schmidt from his unit's barracks in the northern city of Rostock, across the still undefended border between Brandenburg and West Berlin, to a police station in the northwestern district of Spandau, where he announced his intention to flee to West Germany.
- Subjects
BERLIN (Germany : West); GERMANY; REFUGEES; EAST German politics &; government; RIGHT of asylum; WELFARE state; HISTORY
- Publication
Central European History (Cambridge University Press / UK), 2014, Vol 47, Issue 4, p822
- ISSN
0008-9389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0008938914001915