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The Galileo of the GDR: Robert Havemann

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The following portrait is a tribute to Robert Havemann, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death in January 2007. Largely forgotten, Havemann deserved to be remembered as one of the leading dissidents of the German Democratic Republic and as a courageous and outspoken critic of state injustices. A leading physicist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute during the Third Reich and until the mid-1960s in the GDR, Havemann grew from being a loyal Party man in the early years of the GDR, to its fiercest intellectual critic and indeed his generation's conscience during the last two decades of his life.

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  • John Rodden, 2006. "The Galileo of the GDR: Robert Havemann," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(01), pages 37-48.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdebxx:v:14:y:2006:i:01:p:37-48
    DOI: 10.1080/09651560600643692
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