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| | East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The East German territory was reorganized into what is now the city of Berlin and five states, reconstituting political entities that had been abolished in 1950. | | | 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. | | | However, the East German press occasionally reported prosecutions of particularly egregious cases of illegal "second economy" activity, involving what are called "crimes against socialist property" and other activities that are in "conflict and contradiction with the interests and demands of society" (as one report described the situation). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
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| | Directory - Society: History: By Region: Europe: Germany: German Democratic Republic - East Germany |
| | History of East Germany · iweb · cached · Encyclopedia article on the history of the state from 1945 to 1990. | | | The 1953 revolt in East Germany: violence and betrayal · Anthony Glees writes on the uprising of June 1953 in East Germany arguing that it revealed the true face of a state dependent for its survival on the control and surveillance of its own citizens. | | | East Germany · cached · Short article on the Communist state. |
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http://www.incywincy.com/default?p=1218087
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| | Anistoriton: History News |
| | The history of East Germany, the communist part of divided Germany, is nowadays explored more thoroughly especially after East German Archives were made available to researchers. | | | Especially after the party elite had isolated East Germans behind the Berlin Wall, the SED came to take significantly greater account of the nonpolitical aspirations of the people and to reward occupational achievements without requiring evidence of correct political consciousness. | | | The vote in the People's Chamber was prompted not by public discussion, much less a popular movement, but by decision of the Politburo, ruling body of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). |
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http://www.anistor.co.hol.gr/english/enback/h972.htm
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| | latz.html |
| | The THA was established prior to unification by the Modrow government in east Germany. | | | On the other hand, east Germans who technically did not own their property had been living in the same place for as many as fifty years and now faced the uncertainty of redefined property rights. | | | It is clear that unresolved property rights in east Germany slowed the transformation of its economy, which could have benefitted from more monetary compensation in lieu of restitution. |
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http://www.econ.duke.edu/Journals/dje/dje_96/dje4/latz0000.html
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| | Germany: two histories reunited |
| | East German history textbooks were rejected because they faithfully reflected the ideology of the fallen regime. | | | More space is given to daily life in East Germany, the Nazi period and the Holocaust, a comparison between Nazism and Stalinism, as well as how citizens’ movements helped bring down the Communist regime. | | | Because the new generations have not lived the history being taught to them, “the textbooks discuss the rise of the 1989 citizens’ movements and use a range of sources and accounts to show how young East Germans experienced reunification. |
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http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_11/uk/education2.htm
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| | The Last Days of East Germany: German History |
| | Although the GDR leadership tried to deny the reality of these developments, for most East Germans the reforms of Soviet leader Gorbachev were symbols of a new era that would inevitably also reach the GDR. | | | In the minds of the GDR's old-guard communists, the long-awaited international political recognition was seen as a favorable omen that seemed to coincide symbolically with the fortieth anniversary of the East German state. | | | In his address, Honecker sharply condemned the FRG for interfering in the GDR's internal affairs and for encouraging protesters. |
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http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/history/bl_end_of_gdr.htm
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| | Wired News: East Germany Returns, Virtually |
| | It was to understand the phenomenon that Sascha Roeber, 33, started his Web site, which mostly consists of dense texts tracing the history of East Germany, before and after the communist regime. | | | 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. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34041,00.html
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| | No East Germany - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board |
| | Austria and Germany are neutral, mostly disarmed, forbidden membership in western organizations beyond a certain point, linked by longterm state trade deals to Comecon. | | | With unified Germany German economy is likelly to do better. | | | Remainder of Volksdeutsche would have been dumped into Germany |
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http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=1984
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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. | | | Collections on Recent and Contemporary German Culture and Politics: Cultural History of the German Democratic Republic |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/german/cultural.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Russians in Germany : A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949 |
| | Among his conclusions are that even the East German Communists found it hard to accept some of the sheer brutality and bullying of the Soviet occupiers. | | | The result is a thematically arranged work that argues the Soviet regime failed in its governing policies in the occupational zone of Germany as well as, failing to win the hearts and minds of the East German people. | | | Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by Elizabeth D. Heineman |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674784057?v=glance
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| | OUP: AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany: McLellan |
| | This book dissects the relationship between state-sponsored history, the lobbying of veterans, cultural interpretations of war, and the memory traces left behind by marginalised or politically oppositional groups and individuals. | | | From their perspective, Spain was a far-away land to which they were forbidden to travel, the stuff of camp-fire singalongs and fantasies of adventure. | | | But despite dogged attempts at control and censorship, the state was unable to silence competing voices. |
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http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927626-9
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| | H-Net Review: Rob Willingham on The Fall of the GDR: Germany's Road to Unity |
| | Honestly, though, that same vision, of a regime so out of touch with its own people that it is forced to rely on a secret police apparatus dizzying in its scope, is limiting when he moves on to the creation of a new politics in East Germany after the collapse of the SED. | | | But the SED did not emerge fully formed from Stalin's forehead: the pre-existing German communist tradition did have adherents, and the fact that they did not all go away suggests, perhaps, a greater connection between the governed and the government than this book lets on. | | | Discussions with figures ranging from the former head of the MfS, Erich Mielke, to the leaders of the protests in Leipzig flesh out a vision of the regime and its end that few could reproduce, because few have Childs' long history as an observer. |
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http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=216581083259735
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99043348 |
| | Using a wide range of often previously unexamined contemporary documents, the book investigates how ordinary East Germans experienced this extraordinary political and social upheaval, and how central policy decisions were translated into the reality of everyday life in the provinces. | | | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Public opinion Germany (East) History 20th century, Political culture Germany (East) History 20th century, Germany (East) Politics and government | | | Publisher description for Politics and popular opinion in East Germany 1945-1968 / Mark Allinson. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol057/99043348.html
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| | History of paper money in East Germany - Ostmark, Mark der DDR. |
| | The following article provides some historical and economical background for the post-war period in East Germany (GDR) and the development of the Ostmark (East Mark). | | | Please have a look at some sample banknotes from East Germany. | | | The bills would have been useful economically, but were not wanted politically, as they could have been seen as a proof of Inflationary tendencies. |
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http://www.germannotes.com/hist_east.shtml
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| | East Germany - EARLY HISTORY |
| | This battle brought about the liberation of the greater part of Germany from Roman domination. | | | This period of Germanic history, which later supplied material for heroic epics, contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire and resulted in a considerable expansion of habitable area for the Germanic peoples. | | | The final conquest of Roman Gaul by the Frankish tribes in the sixth century became a milestone of European history; it was the Franks who were to become the founders of a civilized German state. |
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http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-5028.html
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| | BBC - German Steps - East German cultural history |
| | To a large extent cut off from the West and its artistic, philosophical and literary movements, the cultural history of East Germany was tied up with revolutionary politics and the battle for freedom of expression. | | | Before reunification, being an artist in East Germany could be a difficult occupation. | | | East German painter Polke is considered one of the most important figures in post-war German art. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/cultural_notes/east_germany.shtml
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| | Germany Travel Information Lonely Planet Destination Guide |
| | When the files of the former East German secret service, the Stasi, were opened up, they were found to contain, among other things, cotton wool swabs of dissidents' body odour, kept in bottles for use by sniffer dogs. | | | Deep in the heart of Europe, Germany has had a seminal impact on Continental history. | | | When To Go Germany is a fine destination year-round, but most people visit between May and September when sunny skies are most likely and much of life moves outdoors. |
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http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/germany
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| | Books History East Germany |
| | The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950 | | | Recasting German Identity: Culture, Politics, and Literature in the Berlin Republic | | | The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 |
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http://www.dailysoft.com/stores/books_us/eastgermany_01.htm
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| | East Germany History |
| | Dähn, Karsten, East Germany - International Results 1952-1990 (Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Archive April 19, 1999) |
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http://www.englandfootballonline.com/Opp/OppDdrHist.html
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| | East Germany, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Equatorial Guinea & Eritrea Postal History; Ecology, Education & ... |
| | Schweiz)" in Eastern Germany, COL on UB, mailed there 1900 to Potschappel (3 clear postmarks), LTF, minor corner wear. | | | To order, please check availability, stating your location. | | | "MORECAMBE" black and white multiview real photo postcard with 5 scenes--including Marine Road West, Winter Garden, Marine Road East and the Town Hall; mailed 2 JLY 1959 (clear Lancaster and Morecambe 'Express Good Wishes by Greetings Telegrams' slogan cancel) to New York City (violet 'Not at Address Given' auxiliary marking). |
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http://www.judnick.com/LotsOfCovers/EastGermany-Eritrea.htm
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| | STASI - LINKS |
| | Prosecutions Of GDR Officials Coming To A Close | | | East German Studies Association (Good site, updated regularly) |
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http://www.futuris.net/stasi/links.htm
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