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East Germany
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Author : Stephen R. Burant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
East Germany written by Stephen R. Burant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Research completed June 1987.
Behind The Berlin Wall
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Author : Patrick Major
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-11-26
Behind The Berlin Wall written by Patrick Major and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-26 with History categories.
Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth. Party, police, and Stasi reports reveal why one in six East Germans fled the country during the 1950s, undermining communist rule and forcing the eleventh-hour decision by Khrushchev and Ulbricht to build a wall along the Cold War's frontline. Did East Germans resist or come to terms with immurement? Did the communist regime become more or less dictatorial within the confines of the so-called 'Antifascist Defence Rampart'? Using film and literature, but also the GDR's losing battle against Beatlemania, Patrick Major's cross-disciplinary study suggests that popular culture both reinforced and undermined the closed society. Linking external and internal developments, Major argues that the GDR's official quest for international recognition, culminating in Ostpolitik and United Nations membership in the early 1970s, became its undoing, unleashing a human rights movement which fed into, but then broke with, the protests of 1989. After exploring the reasons for the fall of the Wall and reconstructing the heady days of the autumn revolution, the author reflects on the fate of the Wall after 1989, as it moved from demolition into the realm of memory.
Area Handbook For East Germany
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Author : Eugene K. Keefe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Area Handbook For East Germany written by Eugene K. Keefe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Germany categories.
General study of German Democratic Republic - covers the historical setting, social structure and political system, foreign policy, economic structure, agriculture and industry, trade, defence, etc. Bibliography pp. 299 to 315, glossary, maps and statistical tables.
East Germany A Country Study
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Author : Eugene K. Keefe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
East Germany A Country Study written by Eugene K. Keefe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Germany (East) categories.
Three Germanies
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Author : Michael Gehler
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2013-06-01
Three Germanies written by Michael Gehler and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with History categories.
Since the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, Germany has been in a continual state of turmoil and reinvention. In Three Germanies, Michael Gehler explores the political rollercoaster Germany has been riding since the Yalta Conference, which split postwar Germany into separate zones controlled by the Soviets, Americans, French, and British. Peace, however, was short lived; from 1948 to 1949 Stalin blockaded Berlin in an attempt to gain control over the largest city in Germany. Though the blockade was finally broken in May of 1949, soon after, Germany was officially split into the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, and the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. From then on, Germany became two very different countries with opposite political ideals, splitting families down the middle ideologically—and soon physically, with the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Though the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and Germany was reunified, its problems were far from over: to this day Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Grand Coalition struggle to implement reform. Gehler’s timely and relevant study will appeal to readers interested in postwar diplomacy and the future of Germany, as it examines Germany’s attempts to find a government and a leader that will create a stable and secure country in the twenty-first century.
Death In East Germany 1945 1990
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Author : Felix Robin Schulz
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-09-01
Death In East Germany 1945 1990 written by Felix Robin Schulz and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-01 with History categories.
As the first historical study of East Germany‘s sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps taken towards a socialist cemetery culture such as issues of design, spatial layout, and commemorative practices; the propagation of cremation as a means of disposal; the wide-spread introduction of anonymous communal areas for the internment of urns; and the emergence of socialist and secular funeral rituals. The author analyses the manifold changes to the system of the disposal of the dead in East Germany—a society that not only had to negotiate the upheaval of military defeat but also urbanization, secularization, a communist regime, and a planned economy. Stressing a comparative approach, the book reveals surprising similarities to the development of Western countries but also highlights the intricate local variations within the GDR and sheds more light on the East German state and its society.
Germany S Cold War
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Author : William Glenn Gray
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003
Germany S Cold War written by William Glenn Gray and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Gray examines West Germany's efforts to deny international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II, in the process telling an important story of the reassertion of Germany as an important power after the disaster of the war.
Film And Memory In East Germany
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Author : Anke Pinkert
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2008
Film And Memory In East Germany written by Anke Pinkert and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Performing Arts categories.
Rethinks the politics of public memory in East German film
East German Distinctiveness In A Unified Germany
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Author : Jonathan Grix
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2003-02-28
East German Distinctiveness In A Unified Germany written by Jonathan Grix and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-28 with History categories.
This book explores the nature of the dramatic growth in a distinct sense of East German identity in the years since the events that led to formal unification in 1990. While it is problematic to see 'East Germanness' as a singular and homogenous identity, it can be perceived as a distinctive phenomenon and a level of identification that exists alongside local, regional and national identities. The essays in this volume hope to challenge the commonly held misconception that East German regional identity is a problem that needs to be overcome in the process of unification. Through analyses of the social, political and cultural behaviour of East Germans and their perception of their own place in German society, this volume makes a complex and nuanced contribution to discussions on German national identity and the unification process.
Uprising In East Germany 1953
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Author : Christian F. Ostermann
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Uprising In East Germany 1953 written by Christian F. Ostermann and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Cold War categories.
"A detailed introductory essay to provide the necessary historical and political context precedes each part. The individual documents are introduced by short headnotes summarizing the contents and orienting the reader. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information."--BOOK JACKET.