Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer Groundswell Speaker 2024 ' JAMES CANTON

' JAMES CANTON

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Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer Groundswell Speaker 2024 ' JAMES CANTONIn 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. In