East Germany

After World War II, Germany was divided into two halves, as well as Berlin. The United States, Great Britain, and France occupied the western portion of Germany and the western half of Berlin. The eastern half of Germany and Berlin was occupied by the Soviet Union. This led to major differences between the two halves of Germany. This also led to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Each side of Germany had different economies, held separate ideologies, societies, alliances, and political systems

After 28 long years of separation, the border between East Germany and West Germany finally opened on November 9, as an announcement was made by the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party which permitted citizens to cross between the two countries. Over 2 million East Berliners participated in the destruction of the Berlin Wall, as a celebration of the end of the long-lasting division (Berlin Wall). The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) could not match the United States and NATO

vAt the end of World War II, Germany was split into four sections, the eastern state occupied by the Russians turned into the German Democratic Republic in 1949, while the other three states became the (FRG). The two countries took very different paths, "The GDR developed a centrally planned socialist economy" while "The FRG adopted a social Market economy" (Marta). West Germany experienced a "post-war miracle economy" also known as "Wirtschaftswunder" (). East Germany had also been doing well themselves

“He who wants the world to remain as it is doesn't want it to remain at all” - Unknown. The East Germans did not want West Germany to excel.(simple) They had meny disagreements leading up to the building of the wall.(simple) As tensions built between west and east germany with politics, defeat from WWII, and East Germany where communist and West Germany was a democracy.(compex) In August 1961 during the cold war a wall was built the cinder block and barbed wire.(simple) The wall divided the country

In East Germany, furthermore, the Air War was a part of the public record and collective memory. In fact, memory and commemoration practices in East Germany addressed, remembered and confronted the aerial bombardment of Germany and used this memory for political purposes amidst the backdrop of the Cold War. By examining the commemoration practices of the Dresden raids, the following chapter will demonstrate the extent to which the Air War was maintained in public memory and discourse in the GDR,

There is a difference seen between Americans and Germans in the way politics are viewed. Considering the rough past with political leaders that Germany has endured, they have a reason to view it differently. This could also be attributed to building up a country that has lost everything. Germany is a country that has seen many trials and tribulations, to get to where they are. Therefore, they have many different tendencies than other countries. For Germans, they have a sense of verbindlich that

East Germany in Wolfgang Becker film «Goodbye Lenin!»: Does the movie paint a positive or negative picture of life in communist East Germany? East Germany, its demise relayed through the mass media of recent history, has in popular consciousness been posited as negative, a corrupt bulwark of the last dying days of Communism in Eastern Europe, barren and silent. The other Germany to its West, it’s citizens free, was striding confidently ahead into the millennium. Recent cinema has sought to examine

In East Germany, people unhappy with life began escaping in the late 1940s. 15 percent of the population (2.7 million people) had gone by 1961. In 1952, many people got out through West Berlin, after East Germany constricted its borders. Escaping was not hard with more than 50,000 East Berliners employed there. Losing so many fresh, highly trained workers, East German leaders were upset. However how this “brain drain” could be stopped? Isolating East from West, circling West Berlin like a tight

What if Germany was still divided into East Germany, and West Germany today? Christiana Vogel is a professor at a local college in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is fluent in German, and English because she is from Berlin. She moved to Denver, Colorado to go to college get her degree. Christiana constantly visited Berlin because her parents lived there, and she actually witnessed the Berlin wall, but was not there at the time when it came down. She was only twenty-three-years-old when the wall started to come

East Germany is a mysterious environment, created by the yearning to camouflage into the greyness of ones surroundings. Intense control limits a human’s capacity to think, without ownership over your thoughts - determining a future and making sense of a tainted and oppressive environment can become paralysing. Therefore, throughout East Germany a truth did not exist as fear had given people the inability to formulate opinions to their full extent. Everyone had an idea as to what had occurred as