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Between hope and fear : everyday life in post-unification East Germany : a case study of Leipzig
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ISBN: 1853311596 Year: 1995 Publisher: Keele University Press

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Frauenfrage und Presse
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ISBN: 3111412121 9783111412122 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin/Boston Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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Three cities after Hitler
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ISBN: 0822988577 9780822988571 9780822946977 0822946971 Year: 2021 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa.

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"Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as "sacred sites" to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold "redemptive reconstruction" after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler-in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents' spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them"--


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Bowling for communism : urban ingenuity at the end of East Germany
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ISBN: 9781501751677 1501751670 9781501751684 1501751689 9781501751660 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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'Bowling for Communism' illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of 'urban ingenuity' amid catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of local communist officials who, with the help of scores of volunteers, constructed a palatial bowling alley without Berlin's knowledge or approval.

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