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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
"We are one people! No violence!" For the regime, it was the beginning of the end. Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans ...
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 ...