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| | East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Before the 1970s, the official position of West Germany was that of the Hallstein Doctrine which involved non-recognition of East Germany. | | | The equivalent of the Communist Party in East Germany was the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED), which along with other parties, was part of the National Front of Democratic Germany. | | | The East German regime was a repressive state. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
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| | Germany - MSN Encarta |
| | Germany’s defeat in 1918 triggered political and economic chaos. | | | However, Germany soon faced numerous social and economic difficulties as it attempted to absorb millions of new citizens and blend different cultures and institutions. | | | An ultranationalist reaction gave rise to the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (see National Socialism), which gained power in the 1930s under German leader Adolf Hitler. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761576917
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| | Germany - Atlapedia Online |
| | East Germany; In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the control of the East German Communist Party was absolute under the Stalinist, Walter Ulbricht until 1971. | | | On Sept. 16, 1993 three former East German minister were sentenced to jail for their part in the shootings at the Berlin Wall. | | | In Sept. 1992 the European currency system was marked by unprecedented turbulence which resulted in intense criticism of Germany particularly by Britain and Italy which felt that the Bundesbank's high-interest-rate policy had contributed to their own domestic economic problems and forced them to pull out of the exchange-rate mechanism. |
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http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/germany.htm
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| | Germany (11/05) |
| | Economic uncertainty in eastern Germany is often cited as one factor contributing to extremist violence, primarily from the political right. | | | The party blamed many of Germany's ills on the alleged influence of Jewish and non-German ethnic groups. | | | Personal ties between the United States and Germany extend beyond immigration to include intensive foreign exchange programs, booming tourism in both directions, and the presence in Germany of large numbers of American military personnel and their dependents. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3997.htm
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| | East Germany. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 |
| | Unable to resist the tide of reform sweeping across communist states, the East German government agreed in 1990 to the reunification of Germany under the leadership of West Germany. | | | Former nation in north-central Europe, officially known as the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990, when East and West Germany were reunited. | | | Popular protests for democracy forced the communist government to open the Berlin Wall in 1989 and allow its citizens to migrate to West Germany. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/59/10/eastgermany.html
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | Berlin was the cultural as well as the political capital of a unified Germany from 1871 to 1945 and resumed that role in the 1990s. | | | Lacking geographical boundaries except for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, it was in the path of migrations and invasions from the east and west, and the fluidity of the population helped delay German unification. | | | Most of the major political parties in Germany are those that dominated West German politics between 1949 and 1990. |
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http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/nations/germany.html
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| | Germany/History/GDR/Siegerjustiz/Victor's Justice/DDR/Justiz/Rachejustiz |
| | It is a hateful politically motivated allegation that Gregor Gysi as a lawyer in the GDR cooperated with the East German police to the detriment of his clients. | | | But this is Germany, most Germans don't care, the Left has been severely decimated and has little voice, and I think the Jews, which were almost totally exterminated in Germany, today as a tiny minority tries hard not to upset their German countrymen. | | | By prosecuting East German communists today the German anti-communists not only play down their historic decency in fighting Nazism (a fact to which most Germans had no claim to) but they also reiterate one of the major "justifications" for the German people's support of Hitler - Hitler's extreme hatred of the communists. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/9362/ss.html
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| | East Berlin, Germany - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin |
| | In the fall of that year, the East German regime was on the verge of collapse, and on November 9, enthusiastic private citizens began to demolish whole sections of the wall without interference from government officials. | | | West Berlin was occupied by British, French, and United States forces and was supported by the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly known as West Germany. | | | Many East Germans left the GDR hoping to find better economic opportunities in the West. |
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http://www.galenfrysinger.com/east_berlin.htm
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| | Germany - Wikitravel |
| | To some extent this might be true (especially in the East) but Germany's history combined with some dramatic television news in the 1990s have left a lasting impression with many people around the world. | | | Most large cities in Germany are extremely cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic with large communities of foreigners including non-whites and religious minorities. | | | Denial of the Holocaust is also a major crime in Germany. |
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http://wikitravel.org/en/Germany
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| | East Germany |
| | They still use term 'east' for the lands in the East of Berlin and from their point of view 'East Germany' will never be removed from Germany map. | | | This question arises not just from political background of the country, but historical, too. | | | This event has great value for Germans as the act of democracy and freedom in society. |
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http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/east_germany.htm
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| | Germany |
| | Adolf Hitler, an Austrian war veteran and a fanatical nationalist, fanned discontent by promising a Greater Germany, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, restoration of Germany's lost colonies, and the destruction of the Jews, whom he scapegoated as the reason for Germany's downfall and depressed economy. | | | The fall of the Communist government in East Germany left only Soviet objections to German reunification to be dealt with. | | | Schröder's deft handling of Germany's catastrophic floods in August and his tough stance against U.S. plans for a preemptive attack on Iraq buoyed him in the weeks leading up to the election. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107568.html
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| | Larkey: Political Economy of Memory in East Germany |
| | In the wake of the 1955 establishment of the NATO and Warsaw Pact military alliances, the Socialist Unity Party and the GDR government pursued a policy of a constructing a socialist German nation within the GDR state (25). | | | The post-unification period has witnessed the privatization of the East German economy, the de-regulation of most areas of public life and the de-centralization of the centralized economic and political institutions in the country. | | | This is a tactic of most of the other East Berlin groups able to travel to the West prior to the fall of the wall as well. |
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http://www.bsos.umd.edu/CSS97/papers/larkey.html
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| | The End of East Germany Germany Deutsche Welle 23.08.2005 |
| | Either the East Germans would toss their dreams of a socialist state and reunify quickly with wealthier West Germany, or the economically-decrepit GDR would try to retain some sense of its past and vote for independence, at least for the time being. | | | The answer was clear: 294 parliamentarians were for the dissolution of East Germany. | | | Fifteen years ago to the day on Saturday, thousands of East German demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the communist country's hated Stasi secret police. |
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1687204,00.html
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| | CNN.com - Main parties struggle in east Germany - Aug 22, 2005 |
| | Merkel grew up in communist East Germany, and the CDU was hoping that her background would be an asset. | | | He blamed the east's post-communist proletarian culture for the case of a mother killing her nine babies. | | | The former Conservative leadership candidate Edmund Stoiber told a Bavarian audience that "the east should not be allowed to determine the outcome of the elections" and that "the frustrated should not be allowed to chose the next chancellor." He also suggested that "easterners" were less intelligent than "westerners." |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/22/germany.cooke
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| | Political Organisations 1949-1990 (East Germany) |
| | As we remarked for Nazi Germany, the Communist regime in East Germany was, until its last days, characterized by the union of party and state. | | | All public activity in East Germany was backed by some kind of organization. | | | In October-November 2000, during a visit to my old home town in (East) Germany, I did some research on flags of former East German political organizations. |
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http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de}ddr.html
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| | Germany: A Brighter Sun In The East |
| | The jubilation that swept East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 long ago gave way to the sober reality of globalization and market forces. | | | For many East Germans, the issue is not material well-being, which is undeniably better. | | | Yet there is reason to believe that the pessimism about the East German economy is overdone. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_40/b3902085_mz054.htm
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| | Former East Germany sinks into economic backwater csmonitor.com |
| | Former East Germany sinks into economic backwater | | | Analysts say that this migration of young workers threatens to undermine eastern Germany's economy for years to come. | | | Politicians have begun to take notice of the growing gulf between east and west. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0314/p08s01-woeu.html
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| | German Democratic Republic (East Germany) |
| | Of these, about 20 of were executed, while more than 1,000 were convicted in the East German courts of having taking part in an "attempted fascist coup". | | | In the fifteen years following the Second World War over 3 million people emigrated from the German Democratic Republic to Federal Republic of Germany. | | | But none of us dare say so in public because of the impact on public opinion in Germany". |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWeastGermany.htm
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| | Uprising in East Germany, 1953 |
| | Ulbricht was able to regain Kremlin support after convincing the Soviets that rather than unseating him (for trying to be as good a Stalinist as Stalin) they needed his authoritarian approach to keep the lid on political and social unrest. | | | The uprising began as a demonstration against unreasonable production quotas on June 17, but it soon spread from Berlin to more than 400 cities, towns and villages throughout East Germany, according to top-level SED and Soviet reports and CIA analyses, and embraced a broad cross-section of society. | | | Neighboring communist party leaders implicitly understood this point, worrying that the spill-over from the GDR might touch off similar outbreaks in their own countries. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB50
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Germany |
| | As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. | | | The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. | | | With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). |
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| | The Fall of Berlin Wall - Berlin Wall History |
| | Mass demonstrations against the government and the system in East Germany begun at the end of September and took until November 1989. | | | At 06.53 pm on November 9, 1989 a member of the new East German government was asked at a press conference when the new East German travel law comes into force. | | | Erich Honecker, East Germany's head of state, had to resign on October 18, 1989. |
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http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/history/fall-of-berlinwall.htm
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| | Germany |
| | established; the U.S. is seeking to settle the property claims of U.S. nationals against the G.D.R.; East Berlin is not officially recognized as the capital of the G.D.R. by France, U.K., and U.S., which together with the U.S.S.R. have special rights and responsibilities in Berlin. | | | LDPD = Liberaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Liberal Democratic Party of Germany, from 9 Feb 1990 LDP = Liberaldemokratische Partei, from 27 Mar 1990 BFD, which 11 Aug 1990 merges with FDP); CDU = Christlich-Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union); | | | NDPD = Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (National Democratic Party of Germany); |
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http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Germany.html
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| | Germany for Kids |
| | Germany Info is the premier US web publication on Germany. | | | It has a house of representatives, called the Bundestag and a second chamber, called the Bundesrat, which represents Germany's 16 federal states. | | | Unlike the U.S., however, the Federal Republic has both a president, who acts as head of state, and a chancellor, who runs the federal government. |
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http://www.germany.info/relaunch/culture/life/G_Kids/g_in_brief.htm
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| | Red Flag (East Germany) |
| | This plain red flag was not the flag of the communist party. | | | Thus it did not represent a certain political group but rather a broad political idea. | | | According to Rabbow 1970 the red flag was never adopted, mainly owing to fears that the same violence would happen which occurred after the first World War in Germany. |
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http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de}red.html
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| | SULAIR: Collections on Recent and Contemporary German Culture and Politics: Cultural History of the German Democratic ... |
| | Autoren-Kollegium formed 1988/89 in East Berlin by some 25 playwrights, most of whom were relatively young and had been unable to find a creative outlet through the established theaters and publishers in East Germany. | | | In 1990, I identified a group of new publishers in East Germany that I wanted to collect in order to document the impact of the Wende on literary publishing and East Germany's countercultural movements, most notably the Prenzlauer Berg writers. | | | The bulk of these posters advertise films from East Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States, but DEFA was responsible for all of the graphic work, regardless of the country from which they were imported. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/german/cultural.html
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| | Wired News: East Germany Returns, Virtually |
| | Kluge's nine-month-old effort is part of an explosion of sites focusing on "Ostalgie" -- nostalgia for the former East Germany -- that have cropped up in the past year. | | | A waving Erich Honecker, the longtime East German leader, greets you as you read on about the virtues of the now-defunct German Democratic Republic. | | | Kluge, who was born in the communist east but now lives in northwest Germany, said recently that his call to arms is more satire than serious. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34041,00.html
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| | NCPA - International Issues - Oases Of Entrepreneurship In East German Desert |
| | East Germans are having a difficult time finding their identity -- as evidenced in a recent survey that showed that while only 9 percent wanted to return to the old regime, a solid majority could not identify with West Germany either. | | | Over the last decade, many east Germans have seethed quietly as west Germans took over companies in the east -- only to sell their real estate and shut factories down. | | | Even 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany largely remains a study in shuttered factories and stagnant growth. |
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http://www.ncpa.org/pi/internat/pd111299c.html
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| | BBC NEWS Europe 'Mini East Germany' planned |
| | The German phenomenon of Ostalgie - nostalgia for the former East Germany - has sparked plans for a theme park celebrating all aspects of life in the communist state. | | | Currently the film Goodbye, Lenin - the story of a young man who shortly after reunification brings the former east back to life in his flat for the sake of his sick mother - is at the top of the German film charts. | | | Nostalgia among eastern Germans has manifested itself in books, songs and films since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1990. |
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| | Country Browser: East Germany |
| | Visit the links in the left hand area of this page to access the different reports. | | | Note: East Germany and West Germany now form a reunified Germany. | | | This area contains a list of interesting reports based around the 1789 titles in the IMDb from East Germany (including international co-productions). |
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http://uk.imdb.com/Sections/Countries/EastGermany
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| | Eastern German Studies Association |
| | Cold War International History Project: Has been publishing interesting GDR documents | | | The Eastern German Studies Association was an association of scholars interested in that part of Germany once known as the German Democratic Republic. | | | This is a remarkably easy way to find if an out-of-print book is available. |
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http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/egsg
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| | DEFA Film Library - Cinema of East Germany |
| | Rebels with a Cause - The Cinema of East Germany | | | The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the only archive and study center outside Europe devoted to the study of a broad spectrum of filmmaking by East German filmmakers or related to East Germany from 1946 to the present. | | | The DEFA Film Library was founded in 1990 by the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and operates under agreements between the University, the DEFA-Stiftung, PROGRESS Film-Verleih, GmbH and ICESTORM International, Inc. |
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| | DDR - East Germany - Where's That Vehicle Come From? |
| | DDR - East Germany - Where's That Vehicle Come From? | | | East German plates started with a group of letters, the first letter indicating the Bezirk (district) of registration: | | | You are here: kingkong home page > Where's That Vehicle Come From? |
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http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/where/ddr.htm
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