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| | East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hilde Benjamin, vice president of the supreme court 1949-1953, minister for justice 1953-1967, dubbed "red guillotine" for her relentless persecution of political opponents | | | On August 23 the Volkskammer decided that the territory of East Germany (including East Berlin) would accede to the ambit of the basic law of the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 1990. | | | The party exercised its leadership role formally during the party congress, when it accepted the report of the general secretary, and when it adopted the draft plan for the upcoming five-year period. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
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| | Anistoriton: History News |
| | Other East Block countries had liberalized abortion laws in the late 1950s. | | | The GDR, however, introduced liberalization in the midst of the wave of abortion reform that swept over the democratic, capitalist West from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. | | | In the February 1997 issue of The American Historical Review, assistant professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, Donna Harsch, explores "Society, the State, and Abortion in East Germany 1950-1972". |
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http://www.anistor.co.hol.gr/english/enback/h972.htm
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| | The Last Days of East Germany: German History |
| | Confronted with this wave of popular opposition, the GDR government, under Prime Minister Willi Stoph, resigned on November 7. | | | In January 1988, Honecker paid a state visit to France. | | | On his orders, all police actions against demonstrators were discontinued. |
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http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/history/bl_end_of_gdr.htm
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| | latz.html |
| | Poland, on the other hand, has had limited success with a much more gradual privatization process. | | | The THA was established prior to unification by the Modrow government in east Germany. | | | Unified Germany assumed control of the THA in the summer of 1990 after economic and monetary union had been established by treaty. |
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http://www.econ.duke.edu/Journals/dje/dje_96/dje4/latz0000.html
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| | Germany: two histories reunited |
| | In the mid-1990s, the education ministers of the Eastern states, who were in charge of supervising the curriculum under the federal system, began to push for change. | | | he shock of unification reached classrooms in the “new” Länder (states) of former East Germany as the 1991 school year began. | | | Last year, the state of Brandenburg officially revised its history curriculum for the first time since 1991. |
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http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_11/uk/education2.htm
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| | Wired News: East Germany Returns, Virtually |
| | Roeber is a West German who visited East Germany a few times as a child because his father had been born in the eastern city of Leipzig. | | | Kluge, who was born in the communist east but now lives in northwest Germany, said recently that his call to arms is more satire than serious. | | | Because many of the state-run East German firms were privatized after reunification, the companies are producing goods. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34041,00.html
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| | History of paper money in East Germany - Ostmark, Mark der DDR. |
| | This was introduced by the government to gain increased access to convertible currency, which the East Mark was not anymore. | | | After World War 2 Germany was split into two parts. | | | The bills would have been useful economically, but were not wanted politically, as they could have been seen as a proof of Inflationary tendencies. |
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http://www.germannotes.com/hist_east.shtml
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99043348 |
| | This groundbreaking work examines East Germany's postwar development from the defeat of Nazism to the stabilization of a new socialist state by 1968. | | | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Public opinion Germany (East) History 20th century, Political culture Germany (East) History 20th century, Germany (East) Politics and government | | | Publisher description for Politics and popular opinion in East Germany 1945-1968 / Mark Allinson. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol057/99043348.html
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| | East Germany - EARLY HISTORY |
| | The final conquest of Roman Gaul by the Frankish tribes in the sixth century became a milestone of European history; it was the Franks who were to become the founders of a civilized German state. | | | This battle brought about the liberation of the greater part of Germany from Roman domination. | | | This period of Germanic history, which later supplied material for heroic epics, contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire and resulted in a considerable expansion of habitable area for the Germanic peoples. |
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http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-5028.html
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| | H-Net Review: Rob Willingham on The Fall of the GDR: Germany's Road to Unity |
| | Maybe a preface on the history of the KPD and of its wartime exile would serve to place all of this into clearer focus. | | | His profiles of the leaders of the regime, and his glimpse into their lives, so separate from the citizens they led, make clear that this was a government apart from the people. | | | (1983) and based on his long activity as one of the most important English-language commentators on East Germany. |
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http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=216581083259735
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| | SULAIR: Collections on Recent and Contemporary German Culture and Politics: Cultural History of the German Democratic ... |
| | These papers were preserved by Bredel's secretary and include his correspondence and other documents produced between 1953 and 1964. | | | The bulk of these posters advertise films from East Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States, but DEFA was responsible for all of the graphic work, regardless of the country from which they were imported. | | | The correspondence touches on matters such as authors' royalties and publishing rights in the GDR and documents certain aspects of Bredel's fall from favor in the GDR, as well as such trivial matters as his efforts to repair his Western automobile. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/german/cultural.html
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| | OUP: AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany: McLellan |
| | It is a cultural history of memory under state socialism, a social history of veteran groups and their relationship with the state, and a political history of communist culture. | | | The ruling Socialist Unity Party made full use of the antifascist legacy as legitimation for a non-democratic state. | | | This book dissects the relationship between state-sponsored history, the lobbying of veterans, cultural interpretations of war, and the memory traces left behind by marginalised or politically oppositional groups and individuals. |
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http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927626-9
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| | Germany Travel Information Lonely Planet Destination Guide |
| | Deep in the heart of Europe, Germany has had a seminal impact on Continental history. | | | When To Go Germany is a fine destination year-round, but most people visit between May and September when sunny skies are most likely and much of life moves outdoors. | | | When the files of the former East German secret service, the Stasi, were opened up, they were found to contain, among other things, cotton wool swabs of dissidents' body odour, kept in bottles for use by sniffer dogs. |
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http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/germany
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| | National Review: No three cheers - social and economic changes in former East Germany |
| | It was a year ago that East Germany became officially reunited with der Vaterland. | | | The professor admitted that he thought he could live more easily in Britain than West Germany. | | | My presenter, a Stuttgarter who had gone east in search of opportunity, had had six stars stolen off the front of his Mercedes in as many months; there was a huge trade - organized by the Polish "Mafia," he alleged - in stolen cars, which were run across the frontier and then sold in Russia. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n3_v44/ai_11882298
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| | No East Germany - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board |
| | Close economic cooperation between Germany and Austria, probablly Switzerland as well. | | | OTOH this could be offset by no Marshall plan. | | | Austria and Germany are neutral, mostly disarmed, forbidden membership in western organizations beyond a certain point, linked by longterm state trade deals to Comecon. |
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http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=1984
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| | BBC - German Steps - East German cultural history |
| | These links are included for educational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement by the BBC of the products or services featured. | | | This is now called the East Side Gallery and stretches over a mile. | | | To a large extent cut off from the West and its artistic, philosophical and literary movements, the cultural history of East Germany was tied up with revolutionary politics and the battle for freedom of expression. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/cultural_notes/east_germany.shtml
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| | East Germany, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Equatorial Guinea & Eritrea Postal History; Ecology, Education & ... |
| | Schweiz)" in Eastern Germany, COL on UB, mailed there 1900 to Potschappel (3 clear postmarks), LTF, minor corner wear. | | | USS LEYTE (CV 32) bold AUG 29 1949 cancel ties 3-c Washington and Lee University stamp franking #6 cover to North Carolina, neatly addressed, backstamped Aug 30 at East Greenwich Rhode Island. | | | To order, please check availability, stating your location. |
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http://www.judnick.com/LotsOfCovers/EastGermany-Eritrea.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - East Germany (German History) - Encyclopedia |
| | More articles from AllRefer Reference on East Germany | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > German History > East Germany | | | AllRefer.com - East Germany (German History) - Encyclopedia |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/X/X-E-EGermany.html
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| | STASI - LINKS |
| | East German Studies Association (Good site, updated regularly) | | | Prosecutions Of GDR Officials Coming To A Close |
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http://www.futuris.net/stasi/links.htm
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| | East Germany History |
| | Dähn, Karsten, East Germany - International Results 1952-1990 (Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Archive April 19, 1999) |
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http://www.englandfootballonline.com/Opp/OppDdrHist.html
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| | Books History East Germany |
| | The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 | | | Recasting German Identity: Culture, Politics, and Literature in the Berlin Republic | | | The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950 |
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http://www.dailysoft.com/stores/books_us/eastgermany_01.htm
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