Summary
When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a new vision of this vanished countr... Full description
- Trapped between Hitler and Stalin (1918-1945)
- Risen from the ruins (1945-1949)
- Birth pangs (1949-1952)
- Building socialism (1952-1961)
- Brick by brick (1951-1965)
- The other Germany (1965-1971)
- Planned miracles (1971-1975)
- Friends and enemies (1976-1981)
- Existential carefreeness (1981-1986)
- Everything takes its socialist course (1987-1990)
- Epilogue: Unity.