Word: berlin
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...information has not prevented the peoples of the most productive Soviet-bloc nation, East Germany (GDR), from working with, against and outside of their socialist regime. John Borneman reveals life within this often hidden society with understandable, personable accounts in After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin...
...book seeks to explain how the East Germans lived before the opening of the Berlin Wall. The title is deceptive because Borneman has no intention of describing life in the post-Wall Germany. But After the Wall accomplishes what Borneman wants: through extensive character studies, he captures the essence of a society that began to irreversibly fade after...
There were real threats in the cold war, risks that some governments in Western Europe would be subverted or otherwise end up controlled by the communists. Later we confronted very serious pressures against Berlin and other parts of the world. But I suspect we exaggerated, greatly exaggerated, the strength that lay behind those threats, and therefore I think we probably misused our resources and directed excessive resources toward responding to those threats at considerable cost to our domestic societies...
...Berlin courtroom, Tisch, who once reveled in the limelight alongside East German head of state Erich Honecker, spoke in a barely audible voice and stared straight ahead with rheumy, vacant eyes. Defense attorneys said he had suffered a stroke, but the judge ruled that the trial should...
Absent from the proceedings was the former East German leader. Charged with issuing illegal shoot-to-kill orders to border guards, Honecker has avoided arrest by taking refuge in a military hospital outside Berlin. Several other former leaders are also under investigation, but most of them are elderly or ailing. With public resentment fading in the euphoria of German unity, Tisch could end up being the only one to face trial...