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If you still have a Mum, give her a hug or a text tonight. As of yesterday, I can't do that anymore - and I wish I could so very much.

An East German handmixer is winning hearts in kitchens nationwide Shoppers are not coming in to Mario Schubert's store asking for Labubus or Stanley mugs. No.

An East German handmixer is winning hearts in kitchens nationwide
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Piece of iconic Berlin Wall installed at beauty spot AN ICONIC piece of Cold War history has appeared in Herefordshire. The piece of the Berlin Wall is on display at Eastnor Deer Park.

Piece of Berlin Wall at Eastnor Deer Park in Herefordshire
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Truss claims living in the UK is now like 'East Germany' in latest bizarre claim The former Prime Minister claims the 'woke' police have stopped citizens 'expressing perfectly normal views'

Bring back the lettuce - we would get more sense out of it. inews.co.uk/news/truss-c...

You can’t beat @herthaner4ever.bsky.social’s good night messages with a sign off from the Sandmännchen. @ddronline.bsky.social

Good to see you have integrated. This will help you when Farage takes power.

'Berlin Apartment' video game lets users live German history – DW – 11/26/2025 'The Berlin Apartment' immerses users in the lives of past city residents. They experience German history through the game, from Nazi rule through the Cold War and the COVID-19 pandemic.

'Berlin Apartment' video game lets users live German history
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Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘I’ve seen a whole system collapse and fade away’ | The Observer

Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘I’ve seen a whole system collapse and fade away’
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As a German, don't you have to wait until the 24th?

‘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

‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

After almost exactly five years, I've finally completed a first draft of my book on crime in East Germany! Still a long way to go with editing, adding, and amending, but feels like an achievement atm :-)

November 9: A fateful day in the history of Germany – DW – 11/09/2025 From the end of the monarchy to the 1938 pogroms to the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9 is a significant date on the German calendar.

November 9: A fateful day in the history of Germany
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Where Berlin Wall sections are found around the world – DW – 11/08/2025 The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. But that's not where its story ended: Today, you can find pieces of the wall around the globe, even in strange places. Each one tells its own tale.

Where sections of the Berlin Wall pieces can be found around the world
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Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war A new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the east

Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Exhibition Opening of ‘Harald Hauswald: Life in East Germany’
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Strange! Must be a DW error, since it is on their English website. Sorry 🙄

GDR assets: The mystery of the missing billions — Part 1 – DW – 11/01/2025 The hunt for the assets of the former East Germany’s ruling party has the hallmarks of a thriller. There are dubious characters, bags of cash, and key witnesses who suddenly die. At its heart is the q...

GDR assets: The mystery of the missing billions — Part 1

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35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

28 October 1969: stamps issued in the GDR to mark the national stamp exhibition held in Magdeburg. This stamp depicts the monument to the scientist and politician Otto von Guericke.

Thanks, I thought so. My Russian is limited to phrases I've read in books about German soldiers on the Eastern Front... 'Dawei bistre' featured quite a lot when they wrote about being in Soviet POW camps!

Can anyone help please? I have a phrase in one of my Stasi files- 'Nu dawei weg'. Is it a mix of Russian and German basically meaning 'go away' ? That would fit the context. Thanks

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East German Women – More Than Just the “Losers”
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I thought that, too 🤣

Helga Paris: Women at Work - The 'Unforeseen Beauty' of East German Factory Workers In 1984 - Flashbak In 1984, Helga Paris spent weeks at a state-owned factory in East Berlin photographing female employees and their "unforeseen beauty".

Helga Paris: Women at Work - The 'Unforeseen Beauty' of East German Factory Workers In 1984 - flashbak.com/helga-pariss...

Just been handed down this fantastic World Soccer magazine from 1990.

A triple page spread on the end of East Germany and its football league system.

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Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...