Given access to the Western pop culture that had been forbidden for decades, East Germans dumped GDR culture for Coca-Cola and the Rolling Stones. And hundreds of thousands of people left for the ...
For all its inadequacies – and there are lots – this car has an extraordinary place in the affections of East German people and is now seen as a much-cherished “old-timer”. I am given a ...
She cites a 2019 study among Germans her age that suggests a fifth of people from the ex-GDR see themselves as East German, rather than German. There is no such trend in western Germany.
The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.
6 Efforts to stop people fleeing from "actually existing socialism," was a constant battle for the East German authorities as their citizens devised new ways to flee to freedom. 7 A car is driven ...
Thousands of people were subjected to forced labor for ... Some of the products made by forced laborers in East German prisons found their way into West German shops and mail-order catalogs.
East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. Now a centre in the German capital provides refuge to people who have escaped war and misery from Afghanistan to Africa. A section of the ...
I think people may have been a bit naive," Carsten ... kings to a second-tier side reflects the fate of many of their east German counterparts. Of the 56 professional teams in Germany's top ...
The perennial East German champions opened the following campaign in front of a crowd of 76 people. The poor treatment of the East extends far beyond soccer and exists decades later. The national ...