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 fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comp

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For many years, Germany has been confronted with the need for political, economic and societal change. In recent federal and state election, the two major polit