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Jul 1, 1997 · Timothy Garton Ash's The File: A Personal History is an exploration of the author's own file that was kept on him by the East German secret police, the State Security Service, "the Stasi." Mr. Ash lived in East Berlin for a few years in the late 70s and early 80s, ostensibly to finish his Ph.D. thesis on the German Communist resistance to the ...
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In the files, writes Ash, is ``a vast anthology of human weakness,'' reflecting less deliberate dishonesty ``than our almost infinite capacity for self-deception.'' Sensitive, subtle, and illuminating, as a fine historian explores those infinitely complicated choices made by human beings confronted by the issue of collaboration or resistance.
Jul 21, 2011 · The File – Timothy Garton Ash. July 21, 2011 by Claire (The Captive Reader) I finished reading The File by Timothy Garton Ash yesterday and just had to talk about it immediately. It is a fascinating, bravely personal examination of the secretive, fearful culture of the GDR and the way it shaped the lives of those touched by the Stasi, be they ...
The File: A Personal History. By Timothy Garton Ash (New York: Random House, 1997. 256pp.). “So what should I do? Jump out of the window?”. Frau R. responds, when confronted by Timothy Garton Ash with reports that she made about him to the Stasi in 1980. (143) Fifteen years later, when the GDR no longer exists, he has [End Page 251 ...
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Nov 1, 1997 · The File: A Personal History. by Timothy Garton Ash. Random House. 262 pp. $23.00. The British journalist Timothy Garton Ash made his reputation in the late 1980’s by writing thoughtful reportage on the liberation of Eastern Europe from Communism. To many observers in those days, Communism under its new leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, seemed to be ...
Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. He has written about the former Communist regimes of ...
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Sep 22, 2010 · In 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton Ash--who was by then famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe--returned. This time he had come to look at a file that bore the code-name "Romeo."
