East Germany
Former GDR minister: Western politicians still don’t grasp devastation of forced capitalist transition
October 25, 2024Resilience and marginalization in post-unification Germany.
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The German Democratic Republic, a socialist state still villainized long after its demise
October 7, 2024Oct. 7, 2024, marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the German Democratic Republic. For several years in the 1980s, People’s World Editor John Wojcik served as chair of the U.S. Committee for Friendship with...
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The invisible front: An American woman’s memoir of spying for East Germany
June 26, 2024One couple did everything in their power to help stop a third world war, risking everything in pursuit of this goal.
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Pan-African Film Festival: Growing up Black in the GDR
February 28, 2024From Berlin to Benin and Togo - and back again.
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Heaven divided: Fear and loathing in West Germany
February 27, 2024Wim Wenders' supposedly apolitical film Wings of Desire depicts West Germany as the reverse image of a capitalist utopia.
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