The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they fee

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For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of pow

The first volume in English about the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a cultural phenomenon, with essays by leading scholars providing a chronological and g