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| | East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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). | | | East German economists and planners were well aware of the alleged strengths and weaknesses of their system of planned economy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
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| | Tracking Jewish History |
| | History cites a Jewish presence in the town in the year 1212. | | | Besides several memorial plaques, only the former Jewish cemetery on what is now Feldbergstrasse recalls the town's Jewish history. | | | The structure, rehabilitated from 1986-1988 is now used for cultural events and as a center for documenting the history of Jewis in the county and city of Heilbronn. |
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http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/tracking_jewish_history.htm
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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 - Country Study · iweb · cached · Detailed Library of Congress study of the German Democratic Republic. |
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http://www.incywincy.com/default?p=1218087
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| | History of Germany, The French Revolution and Germany |
| | Many members of Germany's aristocratic ruling class were opposed to national unity because they feared it would mean the disappearance of their small states into a large Germany. | | | Many of Germany's liberal intelligentsia--lower government officials, men of letters, professors, and lawyers--who pushed for representative government and greater political freedom were also interested in some form of German unity. | | | Industrialization began later in Germany than in Britain, and the German economy was not a significant part of the world economy until late in the nineteenth century. |
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http://home.carolina.rr.com/wormold/germany/3.htm
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| | Germany: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com |
| | In 1955, West Germany was recognized as an independent country by numerous nations, including the USSR, and it became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, thus solidifying its ties with the West. | | | The CDU-CSU held firmly to the position that Germany should be reunited on the basis of democratic elections; it followed the “Hallstein doctrine” (named for Walter Hallstein, an official in the ministry of foreign affairs), under which West Germany refused to have diplomatic relations with any nation (except the USSR) that recognized East Germany. | | | In Mar., 1936, Germany remilitarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/germany
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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. | | | In the February 1997 issue of The American Historical Review, assistant professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, Donna Harsch, explores "Society, the State, and Abortion in East Germany 1950-1972". | | | Throughout Soviet history, prevailing practice vacillated, often wildly, between a traditionalist wing (which stressed danger from the West, militarily as well as technologically; claimed high Soviet technological capability; emphasized military technology; and was largely autarkic) and a non-traditionalist faction, diametrically opposed to the traditionalist group. |
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http://www.anistor.co.hol.gr/english/enback/h972.htm
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| | Germany: two histories reunited |
| | East German history textbooks were rejected because they faithfully reflected the ideology of the fallen 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. | | | Last year, the state of Brandenburg officially revised its history curriculum for the first time since 1991. |
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http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_11/uk/education2.htm
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| | latz.html |
| | 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. | | | East Germany through unification was assured significant financial support from west Germany, in addition to a wealth of market knowledge, membership in the EU, and a fully functional legal and institutional framework that helped ease the transition to a market economy. | | | East German privatization is a special case in that none of the other eastern economies in transition have the benefit of a wealthy "big brother" to aid them in the process. |
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http://www.econ.duke.edu/Journals/dje/dje_96/dje4/latz0000.html
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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 Berlin, on October 7, the GDR leadership celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the East German state. |
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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. | | | Roeber is a West German who visited East Germany a few times as a child because his father had been born in the eastern city of Leipzig. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34041,00.html
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| | Germany History - TravelPuppy.com |
| | Germany, in common with much of the rest of Europe, was divided by the Reformation at this time, despite Charles V’s attempts to impose a religious solution by force. | | | Germany was divided into 2 parts: the eastern, Soviet-controlled portion became the German Democratic Republic (GDR); the western part emerged to become the Federal Republic of Germany. | | | The year after the end of World War I in 1919, Germany adopted a democratic constitution. |
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http://travelpuppy.com/germany/history.htm
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| | Germany History of Germany Geography of Germany German People and German Culture |
| | Some ten thousands of Jews from the former Eastern Bloc settled in Germany since the fall of the Berlin wall. | | | Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North and Baltic Seas in the north. | | | Germany are at the forefront of European states seeking to exploit the momentum of monetary union to advance the creation of a more unified and capable European political, defense and security apparatus. |
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http://anythingarkansas.com/arkapedia/pedia/Germany
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| | Germany Info: Culture & Life: History: Milestones in History |
| | Germany's parliament condemns the terrorist attacks of September 11 in the US and endorses Germany's solidarity with the US Chancellor Schröder prevails in crucial vote tying vote of confidence to the parliamentary approval of German military participation in the international war against terrorism | | | 1950-1971 Walter Ulbricht leader of the SED (Communist Party of East Germany) | | | 1945 &; Hitler's suicide; unconditional surrender and occupation of Germany |
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http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/history/milestones.html
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| | No East Germany - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board |
| | With unified Germany German economy is likelly to do better. | | | Remainder of Volksdeutsche would have been dumped into Germany | | | Close economic cooperation between Germany and Austria, probablly Switzerland as well. |
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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 Republic |
| | 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 |
| | Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by Elizabeth D. Heineman | | | 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. | | | Because history is written by the victors, one seldom hears of the plight of the vanquished. |
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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. | | | It is a cultural history of memory under state socialism, a social history of veteran groups and their relationship with the state, and a political history of communist culture. | | | All over East Germany, International Brigade veterans preserved their version of events - in letters to each other, in communications with the party, in discussions with friends and family around the kitchen table, and in memoirs written for the 'desk drawer'. |
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http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927626-9
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| | Germany Info: Culture & Life: History: Features: German Revolution of 1848/49 |
| | The political groupings and alliances that emerged during this time, however ineffective, may be seen as precursors to the political parties of modern Germany. | | | Though of varied political beliefs, all sought such basic rights as freedom of the press, trial by jury and constitutional systems of government in the states, as well as the unification of Germany into one nation-state. | | | Germany before 1848 was fragmented and retained much of the feudal system. |
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http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/history/1848.html
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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. | | | 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. | | | Maybe a preface on the history of the KPD and of its wartime exile would serve to place all of this into clearer focus. |
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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 |
| | 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 | | | This groundbreaking work examines East Germany's postwar development from the defeat of Nazism to the stabilization of a new socialist state by 1968. | | | 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. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol057/99043348.html
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| | Baden Emigration Index HTML Page |
| | LDS Family History Library microfilm numbers and basic description of the films are taken from the LDS Family History Library catalog, and based on my own familiarity with the films. | | | The title of the Baden Emigration Index on microfilm which the LDS Family History Library uses in its catalog is shown in their library premises computer as "Auswanderer, 17. | | | Films are loaned to local Family History Centers upon payment of the nominal per-roll loan fee of approximately $3.65 US. |
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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). | | | The Mark in East Germany (GDR) was introduced as an answer to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark in West Germany in 1948. | | | On 1.7.1990 in East Germany the West German Deutsche Mark was introduced as official currency, due to the political developments that finally ended in the re-unification of the country. |
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| | Joseph Vohs |
| | Although her name is usually seen as Rose and listed as Rosa in the History of Kansas and on her tombstone, it is believed that the 1865 Kansas census listing her name as Roseta is her actual given name. | | | Rose Vohs, a resident of Wea township for 50 years, but a native of Germany, died at the Vohs homestead, seven miles noth of Louisburg last Christmas morning at 3 o'clock, after suffering the last five weeks with heart trouble and a complication of disease. | | | 187; History of the State of Kansas (Chicago: A. Andreas, 1883), 894; although The History of Our Cradle Land lists the year of his birth as 1829, the U.S. Census records consistently suggest 1836 as the year of his birth. |
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| | Baden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Baden is a historical state in the southwest of Germany. | | | Since then, it has acquired more territory, so that it now has 5823 sq mi (15,082 km²) and its population is 2,009,320, of whom 60% are Roman Catholics, 37% Protestants, 1.5% Jews, and the remainder of other confessions. | | | After World War II in 1945, the French military government created the State of Baden with Freiburg im Breisgau as capital out of the southern half of the former Baden. |
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| | History of Baden, Wuerttemberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| | The great bloc (1905-17) of Liberals, Democrats and revisionist Socialists rose against the Zentrum (Center, the strongest party after 1905). | | | Karl Friedrich (1738/46-1811) reunited Baden in 1771 and inaugurated countless reforms in accordance with the principles of Englightened Despotism. | | | As a result of the referendum of December 6, 1951, Baden was absorbed into the new state of Baden-Württemberg on April 25, 1952. |
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http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BAD-WUE/hist.html
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| | National Review: No three cheers - social and economic changes in former East Germany |
| | One woman with a faded face - who, like so many older people in East Germany, looked seventy instead of her sixty years - said she had been 12 times to Leningrad, but only once to London (in the past year), and was making her first visit to West Germany (to Munich) next month. | | | The professor admitted that he thought he could live more easily in Britain than West Germany. | | | It was a year ago that East Germany became officially reunited with der Vaterland. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n3_v44/ai_11882298
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| | Black Forest Genealogy |
| | "History of Freistett and Neufreistett", German language only. | | | Evangelical sources -- Appenweier's Lutheran population is served by the Evangelical parish of Renchen, which was established in 1929. | | | Catholic sources -- Catholic citizens of Gutach are served by Hornberg Catholic parish. |
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| | Germany - history |
| | Confrontation with Germany´s enemies since world war one now led to yet another war, world war two, during which Hitler personally took responsibility over the military strategy of Germany. | | | Hereby linked events took place mainly in Southern Germany, West Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Spanish Netherlands, and a peaceful solution was not achieved until after the death of Josef I, then in connection with the peace conference of Rastatt (Baden), 3 years later. | | | As an ally to Pope Innocentius III, in his confrontation with Otto IV, he was proposed to be the king of Germany, and was crowned to that in 1212, and in 1220 to emperor, as well. |
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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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