Germany after WW2

Morgenthau Plan

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

 1948-9

The Birth of

East Germany

1949

 The 1953

Uprising

The Berlin Wall  1961

1961 Tank Standoff

The SED

Socialist Unity Party

The FDJ &

Junge Pioniere

The Stasi

Escaping

East Germany

East German

Military

The Brezhnev

Doctrine

Ulbricht Replaced by Honecker 1971

Really Existing Socialism

Ostpoltik

Detente

 

Escalation of

the Cold War

Glasnost and

Abgrenzung

Die Wende 

(Turning Point)

Reunification

Vergangenheits

Bewaltung

 Mastering the

Past

East German Film

East German

tv programs

East German

Writers

East German

Rock

East German

Sports Program

The Trabant

Map of

East Germany

Population of

East Germany

East German

National Anthem

German and

English lyrics

Ostalgia

 

East German

Glossary with

German

Pronunciation

Time Line of

East German

History

East German

News and Links

Goodbye,

Lenin !

Trabant

t shirts 

Stasi

The Untold Story Of the German Secret Police

East German

 t shirts

 

Twelve Years:

An American Boyhood

in

East Germany

The sudden fall of the Communism in Eastern Europe caught Western leaders and the CIA off guard . As late as 1988, West Germany's chancellor, Helmut Kohl, said he doubted he would see German Unification in his lifetime and $151 million had been spent on a new parliament building in Bonn, begun only in 1986. By the late 80s, East Germany and Romania were the last of the hard-line Socialist states. The intrusive nature of the secret police, with 1 in 7 adults being a government informer, special privileges for the party elites and the obvious material wealth and freedom beamed from West German tv stations and growing economic stagnation , Gorbachev's renunciation of the Brezhnev Doctrine and Glasnost reforms were some of the major factors leading to East German collapse by 1989.

 The Lost World of Communism East Germany

 

 That Was the GDR - A History of the Other Germany

©  Thomas Zimmerman  2007

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