Geschiedenis the german democratic republic - east germany -

The German Democratic Republic HI136: History of Germany

Totalitarianist interpretations ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Modernising dictatorship? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Collective biographies & everyday histories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The Children of Golzow (7-up TV biography, 1961 ff.) Born in Year One , Wierling’s 2002 collective biography Goodbye Lenin (2003): Alex with his allegorical mother/motherland who cannot survive the fall of the Wall GDR green man – is nothing sacred?

The Achievements of Socialism First GDR cosmonaut in 1976; from the 1960s astronomy was on all GDR school curriculums Charité hospital, Berlin: GDR polyclinics are one of the few legacies adopted by united Germany Katarina Witt, Olympic ice-skating champion & GDR ‘ice princess’: the GDR measured its success against the FRG in gold medals East Germany’s ‘honours system’: the state was adept at rewarding participation with a mania for badges

Walter Ulbricht, SED leader 1946-71 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Erich Honecker, SED leader, 1971-89 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Wilhelm Pieck (KPD) shakes hands with Otto Grotewohl (SPD) on formation of SED, April 1946 Propaganda poster for unity

The Stasi (MfS): Shield and Sword of the Party ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Erich Mielke, Minister of State Security, 1957-89 Manfred Stolpe, dogged by IM accusations Stasi HQ at Normannenstrasse, Berlin

17 June 1953: A People’s Uprising? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],‘ The People’s Uprising of 17 June’, West German poster

The Open Border Potsdamer Platz, 1952, before the Wall Movements across German-German border, 1949-61: note peaks in 1953, mid-50s when tourist viasa available, & eve of Wall ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Temporary barriers on 13.8.61 Border troops’ sketch of Berlin Wall (post-1975 version): a double wall with a sandy area between & alarmed fences & anti-grip final wall

Antifascism: a legitimatory ideology ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Buchenwald memorial: unveiled in 1958, this group represents the KPD’s leading role in the resistance, with a (historically dubious) myth of the camp’s self-liberation; Buchenwald was the GDR’s main memorial site for school visits & veterans’ meetings

Socialist nationalism? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Thomas Müntzer, leader of 1525 peasants’ revolt in a GDR biopic: a proto-socialist? East Germany rediscovers its Prussian heritage: statues of Frederick the Great come out of mothballs on Unter den Linden, 1980s GDR flag of 1949: identical with FRG! GDR flag of 1959: with added hammer, dividers & wheat sheaves

‘ The Friends’: Relations with the Soviets ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Communist poster: ‘ This is how the Soviet Union is helping us to realise the New Course: Handing back SAG factories Cancelling reparations Lowering occupation costs Cancelling postwar debts’ Anti-communist poster: ‘ Count me out’, alluding to rape of women by Red Army Mikhail Gorbachev, face of reform communism

Economic decline ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],GDR’s ‘money man’, Schalck-Golodkowski, meets Bavarian minister-president, Franz Josef Strauss Bitterfeld, most polluted area of the GDR & heart of her chemicals industry

Civil society ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Wolf Biermann, GDR’s enfant terrible Umweltbibliothek activists Jens Reich & B ä rbel Bohley, founders of New Forum in Sept. 1989 ‘ Namenlos’ punks perform in churchyard, 1983 Round table between SED & opposition, Dec. 1989

The Fall of the Wall ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Günther Schabowski, Politburo member, at the famous press conference, 9 Nov. 1989 GDR citizens seek refuge in West German embassy in Prague

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