Restricting Knowledge: Channeling Security Information in Recent History
Overview
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Introduction
Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Session I: Archives
Chair: Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University)
Oxana Kosenko (Saxon Academy of Sciences)
Kristie Macrakis (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Archives and Cultures of State Secrecy in Transnational Perspective
Douglas Selvage (Office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records)
Compartmentalization and Circulation of Intelligence Information: The Case of the East German Stasi, 1972-1989
Commentator: Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University)
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 – 3:00 pm Session II: POW Camps
Chair: Tim Nenninger (National Archives and Records Administration)
Eva Jobs (University of Marburg)
The State of Trust - Limits and Chances of Transatlantic Intelligence Liaison in Postwar Germany
Derek Mallett (US Army Command and General Staff College)
PO Box 1142: Fort Hunt, Virginia, and the American Interrogation of World War II Prisoners of War
Jean-Michel Turcotte (L'Université Laval)
“Was wollen Sie wissen?”The Western Allied Collaboration and Exchanges of Intelligence Information on German POWs during the Second World War.
Commentator: Sönke Neitzel (University of Potsdam)
3:00 – 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30 pm Session III: States
Chair: Heidi Tworek (The University of British Columbia)
Florian Altenhöner (University Berlin)
Secret Germany: Secrecy, the Abwehr and the Weimar’s Republic Intelligence Culture
Patrick Roberts (Virginia Tech, Alexandria) and Robert Saldin (University of Montana)
On a Need Not to Know Basis: Why Presidents Sometimes Do Not Use Intelligence Information.”
Dominik Rigoll (Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam) Geheimschutz. Classifying Information in the West German Ministry of the Interior.
Commentator: Rebecca Lemov (Harvard University)
5:30 pm Wrap-Up Discussion
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