Anthony Glees is a reader in history at Brunel University. His research interests include German politics, British-German relations, German transformation since 1989; Germany’s new political culture with special reference to the impact of human rights abuses, truth and reconciliation issues in respect of the former German Democratic Republic.

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The uprising of June 1953 in East Germany revealed the true face of a state dependent for its survival on the control and surveillance of its own citizens. The tragedy is that it took three more decades for the west to understand the nature of its communist adversary and begin the process of liberating the people whose lives it had crushed.