East German

Summary: Dresden [Germany], Dec 13 (ANI): An East German secret police identity card belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin when he was a Soviet spy in the then socialist country in the early 1980s has been found in East German secret police archives in Dresden.

On Saturday, November 17, visitors to the exhibition will get an extra insight into East German life thanks to the Wartburg Trabant IFA Club UK, whose members will be bringing a display of Trabants, Wartburgs and Barkas vans.

But Americans had nothing on the East German punks, as Tim Mohr brilliantly documents in his incendiary Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

So, today, 56 years ago, Berlin woke up in shock: the East German army began building the scandalous wall.

Rather, looking at some reproductive policies like the extension of the childcare system in Germany today, it seems that politicians have "forgotten" about their once-antagonistic stance on East German notions of gender roles.

East German cinema has received much academic attention since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, but Sebastian Heiduschke's lightweight volume may become a seminal 'go-to' work for scholars and students of the topic.

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, GDR companies and products that had been protected by 60 years of state planning were taken over by Western companies, which often terminated East German products due to the fear of intra-company competition.

Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, has died aged 86, German media reported on Sunday.

Historian Scott Moranda adds to this discussion with The People's Own Landscape, effectively demonstrating that instead of bitter disagreement between ordinary citizens and the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) over land usage, there was for most of East German history a remarkable consensus between rulers and ruled that scientific and authoritarian management of nature could yield limitless economic abundance and higher standards of living.

"The Leipzig Affair is the story of a doomed love affair between a young Scot called Robert, who is studying in Leipzig, and an East German woman desperate to flee.

It was weird to be in the big city, but in an entirely wooded section, no houses in sight, just the road looking down onto the East German sector.