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Beyond the Wall : East Germany, 1949-1990
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ISBN: 0241633508 0241553784 9780241633502 9780241553787 Year: 2023 Publisher: London: Allen Lane,

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Beyond the wall : a history of East Germany
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ISBN: 9781541602571 9781541602588 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Basic Books

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"In the aftermath of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Germany into zones of occupation. The Soviet Union claimed the eastern part of the country, out of which soon emerged the German Democratic Republic-East Germany. For the next four decades, the GDR existed in Western minds more as a metaphor than as a place, a gray communist blur somewhere on the far side of the Berlin Wall. And as Germany once again became a single state after 1991, when East Germany was absorbed into West Germany, the history of the German Democratic Republic became almost indistinguishable from that of Soviet Russia. It was nothing but Stasi spies and central planning, nothing but a wall around Berlin. In Beyond the Wall, Katja Hoyer offers a more comprehensive history of East Germany, one that doesn't shy away from the border guards, secret police, and brutal repression that were inescapable in the GDR-but that also embraces the accomplishments of the country's socialist system: excellent free healthcare, unprecedented gender equality, and the destruction of class privilege. By considering the former without the latter, and seeing the GDR only as a Soviet appendage, we miss the extent to which East German history was shaped by Germans, the fruition of long-standing ambitions of generations of German socialists, reaching back long before the Cold War began"--


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Diesseits der Mauer : eine neue Geschichte der DDR 1949-1990
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ISBN: 9783455015683 3455015689 Year: 2023 Publisher: Hamburg Hoffmann und Campe

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