Politische "Grenzgänger" in der Viersektorenstadt Berlin (1945 - 1948) Überlegungen zu einer historischen Quellenkritik der Autobiografie

Abstract

The article aims to develop criteria that can be helpful for the historical contextualization of sources which are helpful for autobiographical research. It focuses on "political border-crossers" in Berlin. These people resufsed to accept the separation of East and West and the consequences of the Cold War. They looked - unsuccessfully in the end - for political alternatives to the formation of ideological camps and the separation of states and cities.