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Stasi secret files: How James Bond was spied on by East Germany

Stasi files show that 007 violated the GDR border four times at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin. The whole thing happened during filming for 'Octopussy.' A dangerous scandal in the middle of the Cold War, observed and documented by the Stasi.

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‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy

In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Guardian - UK

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever

Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience

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Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics

The stories of curator Kathleen Reinhardt and provenance expert Lynn Rother show how exclusion can be turned to powerful insight, says writer Carolin Würfel

The Guardian - UK

‘We are all Vietnamese and came to Germany to build a better life’

After the Vietnam War ended, thousands travelled to Germany. A recent anniversary has stirred a sense of reflection.

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Germany’s post-Holocaust moral remaking is being challenged by the rise of the far-right – and wars in Gaza and Ukraine

Current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza (now spreading across the Middle East), have placed Germany in a difficult position, forcing it to reconsider its role in the world. A uniquely German sense of guilt and shame for the Holocaust “inseparably” ties the Israel-Palestine conflict to “Germany’s unquestionable solidarity with Israel”,…

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Thirty-five years since the wall fell, Berlin is divided – over what to do with crumbling communist buildings

The 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an event that powerfully symbolised the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and signalled the end of the cold war, is an opportune moment to take stock of what remains of East Germany (GDR) in the capital of Germany.

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As a former East German athlete doped by the state, I see how our past pain is fuelling the far right

In east Germany, our history is shrouded in lies and silence. Until we break their hold, support for extremism will flourish, says academic and author Ines Geipel

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Ikea Paying $6.5 Million To East German Prisoners Forced To Make Their Furniture

The compensation is part of Germany's commitment to 'deal with dark chapters of its own history'

International Business Times

Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart

Likely win in Thuringia and second place in Saxony highlight how eastern voters are asserting their own political identity

The Guardian - UK

Decades after Germany’s reunification, views still differ on its cultural divide

Letters: Ruth Strassl, born in West Germany, and John Green, who spent several years living in East Germany, respond to an article by Carolin Würfel

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UEFA Euro 2024 finals stage reopens east-west football divide in Germany

Of the 10 host cities staging UEFA Euro 2024, only one is in the former East Germany. Can the playing field be levelled?

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What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west

The far-right AfD is leading the polls in former GDR regions – and longstanding bias in German media and politics is partly to blame, says German-British historian Katja Hoyer

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East German dissident singer Wolf Biermann celebrated in Berlin exhibition

Exile in 1976 spawned mass protest movement and led to exodus of some of GDR’s top artists and actors

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From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

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‘The GDR was safe for me’: Disney drama tells story of former East Germany’s first black police officer

Samuel Meffire was the face of an ad campaign to show a different side to the former GDR but later served time for armed robbery

France 24

'Beyond the Wall': The GDR seen from an East German perspective

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, symbolising the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Plenty of books, essays and documentaries have been devoted to the historic turning point, but hearing from East Germans about how they experienced the four decades of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)…

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Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – overturning cliches of East Germany

A revisionist history that adds stability, contentment and women’s rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism

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Hans Modrow obituary

Last communist prime minister of East Germany whose proposals for a slow process of reunification were pushed aside

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Siblings by Brigitte Reimann review – rebel with a cause

This intoxicating 1963 novel explores the tension between socialist ideals, self-fulfilment and repressive reality in East Germany

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Dessau: Lanzelot review – gleefully eclectic attack on Soviet totalitarianism

One of the German Democratic Republic’s most significant composers used his opera about a dragon and a knight to question the regime

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‘Like being beaten with a bat’: Georg Baselitz on eye-opening art – and his true feelings about female painters

Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’

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Red poets’ society: the secret history of the Stasi’s book club for spies

For seven years, the East German security service’s poetry group met in Berlin to discuss literature. But there was more to it than just learning about iambic pentameter

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Ukrainian minister faults Germany, says Russia may want GDR revived

Ukraine's defence minister said on Friday Berlin's reluctance to supply Kyiv with weapons encourages Russian aggression, and suggested Moscow may hope to revive the German Democratic Republic in eastern Germany.

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