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This should be required reading.
Pair this with the German series "Weissensee" which is available on a subscription streaming channel called MHz Choice.
I'd like to learn more about what life was like for the former East Germans after reunification.
remember:
workers' uprising 1953
marginalization
"defection by television"
Diamant bicycles
16,000,000 population DDR
Karl Marx Stadt = Chemnitz
Uchtpringe (Opa)
Hoheneck Castle (women's prison)
Günter Schabowski ("As far as I know, immediately.") ...more
Pair this with the German series "Weissensee" which is available on a subscription streaming channel called MHz Choice.
I'd like to learn more about what life was like for the former East Germans after reunification.
remember:
workers' uprising 1953
marginalization
"defection by television"
Diamant bicycles
16,000,000 population DDR
Karl Marx Stadt = Chemnitz
Uchtpringe (Opa)
Hoheneck Castle (women's prison)
Günter Schabowski ("As far as I know, immediately.") ...more
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