By Maria Martinez and Rene Wagner BERLIN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - East Germany's extensive Cold War economic espionage in the 1970s and 1980s lifted its overall economic output by 7.4% at the end of the ...
The DEFA documentary whisper & SHOUT (Dir: Dieter Schumann, 1988) is the only official documentary ever made about the East German rock scene before the Wall came down. For a year, the film crew ...
A scene from the film Comrade Couture, which tells the story of the underground fashion scene in the German Democratic RepublicSabine von Oettingen In 1980s East Germany, there was a group of ...
No major combat incidents occurred in the GDR, but the S-200 system’s presence deterred potential aggressors, aligning with Warsaw Pact exercises and Soviet oversight. East Germany was at the ...
At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.
A festival of classic cars from the communist era brings out some nostalgia in eastern Germany for pre-unification days, although the abuses that occurred behind the Iron Curtain aren’t forgotten. By ...
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