Abstract
Civil rights in the GDR are often dismissed as a contradiction in terms. And yet, citizen rights and ‘socialist justice’ were contentious topics in the GDR from the very beginning, and were perennial subjects of serious concern about the delivery of popular justice under state socialism. Nowhere was this more apparent than with the informal ‘dispute commissions,’ or Schiedskommissionen, which were set up in residential areas across the country in 1963 to take pressure off the legal system and to initiate citizens into the workings of ‘socialist legality.’ How norms of socialist domestic life were understood, staged and adjudicated by these neighborhood dispute commissions – as seen in minor disputes regarding private property, noise and honor—is the main thrust of this chapter.
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