Pintilescu, Corneliu: Conceptul de "naționaliști germani" în practica Securității (1948-1989). In: Ciobanu, Vasile – Solomon, Flavius – Radu, Sorin (coord.): Partide politice și minorități naționale din România în secolul XX. vol. VI., Editura Kriterion, Cluj-Napoca, 2011. pp. 135 – 150.

This study analyzes the manner in which the concept of “German nationalists” (“naţionalişti germani”) has been defined and used by the Romanian Securitate in order to legitimize its repressive policies and the social surveillance focused on the German minority in Romania. The analysis is mostly based on documents issued by the Securitate during its different stages of evolution. The transformations suffered by the concept of “German nationalists” reflect the evolution of these repressive policies during the communist period, taking into account that very often the Securitate put under this conceptual framework almost all the members of the ethnical minority. The main hypothesis argued in this study is that the Securitate used the concept of “German nationalists” during the first period of its evolution (1948-1964) mainly to legitimize the above mentioned repressive policies. During the second period (1964-1989) the concept has been mainly used to legitimize policies of mass surveillance. The conclusions are that immediately after the Second World War the concept was connected with the antifascist discourse and policies of the Romanian communist regime who manipulated these practices in order to cover the political repression against the elements perceived by the regime as enemies. From the late sixties, however, it was connected with the intention of the majority of the members of this community to emigrate to Federal Republic Germany, intention perceived by the communist regime as political guilt. 

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