This text examines East Germany's postwar development from the defeat of Nazism to the stabilization of a new socialist state by 1968. Using a range of previously unexamined contemporary documents, the book investigates how ordinary East Germans experienced this extraordinary political and social upheaval, and how central policy decisions were translated into the reality of everyday life in the provinces.
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This text examines East Germany's postwar development from the defeat of Nazism to the stabilization of a new socialist state by 1968. Using a range of previously unexamined contemporary documents, the book investigates how ordinary East Germans experienced this extraordinary political and social upheaval, and how central policy decisions were translated into the reality of everyday life in the provinces.
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