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Born in the GDR: living in the shadow of the wall /

The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval: from the way they v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaizey, Hester
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=3KE-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA179&dq=Born+in+the+GDR:&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgpY2w37bPAhUBTWMKHbTCD48Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=Born%20in%20the%20GDR%3A&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Petra : shaping the change
  • Carola : seeing the contradictions
  • Lisa : accepting the circumstances
  • Mario : feeling the regime's wrath
  • Katharina : believing in God under pressure
  • Robert : supporting the idea of socialism
  • Mirko : rejecting the party line
  • Peggy : feeling safe and secure
  • Interpreting the end of East Germany.