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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...

Thousands of Germans access Stasi files, 35 years after reunification
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What do statistics reveal about Germany 35 years after reunification? 35 years after German reunification, Destatis has released a series focusing on statistical differences between eastern and western federal states today.

What do statistics reveal about Germany 35 years after reunification?
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35 years later, beloved East German car still sputters on
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Divided again? 35 years after reunification, Germany feels it is growing apart - The Berliner 35 years after reunification, most Germans believe the nation is growing apart, with East Germans feeling the divide most strongly.

Divided again? 35 years after reunification, Germany feels it is growing apart

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35 years after Berlin Wall, East German football struggling – DW – 10/02/2025 East Germany's political collapse was mirrored in football, but a focus on youth brings hope for the future.

35 years after Berlin Wall, East German football struggling
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Where does Germany stand 35 years after reunification? – DW – 10/03/2025 There is still a wide gap between the former East and West Germany, even amongst young people who have only ever lived in a unified country. The new commissioner for eastern Germany attempts to explai...

35 years today, Germany was reunified.

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Read a Stasi file this morning on an alleged case of rape between two men. The Stasi accused the apparent rapist of hypnotising the other man into a suggestive state of mind... #GDR

East German Campers Keep Traditions Alive Former East Germany campers gather in Leipzigast twice a year to relive a shared past more than three decades after reunification.

East German Campers Keep Traditions Alive
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'Everything has changed here': East Side Gallery turns 35 – DW – 09/24/2025 Once a place for alternative lifestyles, now a monument surrounded by offices and luxury apartments: Few other places in Berlin symbolize change as much as the East Side Gallery.

'Everything has changed here': East Side Gallery turns 35
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Making a Club Yours: The Real Romance of Football From Newcastle to Dresden: Finding What a Club Really Means

My first ever post on Substack and this one is all about how I came to follow Dynamo Dresden.

Hopefully the first of many football related article.

Feel free to subscribe and donate.

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#SGD1953 | #2Bundesliga | #NUFC

Berlin's Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would have loved how easily you can hide cameras and microphones now.

Berlin's Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion
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Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever
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Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

East Germany's divisive Plattenbau back in spotlight – DW – 09/13/2025 A cheap way to manage the housing shortage in former GDR cities, the prefab concrete buildings were long derided for their monotony. Their cultural legacy is now being explored anew.

East Germany's divisive Plattenbau back in spotlight
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Ich habe dieses Buch heute aus Rumänien geliefert bekommen.

Berlin's memorial to victims of communism 'long overdue' – DW – 08/24/2025 In 2019, the Bundestag voted to create a memorial for the victims of communism. Progress on the project has stalled, but there are now plans to move forward.

Berlin's memorial to victims of communism 'long overdue' p.dw.com/p/4zMCh?maca...

New book alert! 'Generation GDR' guardianbookshop.com/generation-g...

Bob Dylan – East Berlin 1987 Review A surprise performance in East Berlin showcases a surreal quality on stage from Bob Dylan during a time when his studio releases were below par.

Bob Dylan – East Berlin 1987 Review cultfollowing.co.uk/2025/08/17/b...

German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit Eisenhüttenstadt offered spacious central flats rent-free for two weeks in effort to attract valuable professionals

German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

From my research: between 1983 and 1984, Mario Stiebitz killed four children, one adult, and planned the abductions and killings of a further twenty children in and around Neubrandenburg in the #GDR. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_S...

History Today: When construction on the Berlin Wall began in 1961 On this day in 1961, soldiers in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began construction on the Berlin Wall – separating the communists backed by the Soviet Union from the Federal Republic of...

History Today: When construction on the Berlin Wall began in 1961
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YouTube video by ITN Archive Rare Footage of British Soldiers in Cold War West Germany (1964)

Rare Footage of British Soldiers in Cold War West Germany (1964) youtu.be/9oHpR-1u-xM?...

Sibylle: the East German vogue‑like fashion magazine Sibylle was the GDR’s leading fashion and culture magazine (1956–1995), combining artful photography and sewing patterns under socialist constraints.

‘Sibylle’: how East Germany produced its own ‘Vogue’ under socialism dangerousminds.net/history/siby...

Stasi: How the GDR kept its citizens under surveillance – DW – 08/01/2025 Do all intelligence agents live like James Bond? Not those who worked for East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Stasi). A new book reveals the mundane lives of the agents.

Stasi: How the GDR kept its citizens under surveillance
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Horst Mahler, a German Holocaust denier who was once a far-left militant, dies at 89 Horst Mahler, a founding member of the Red Army Faction who later became a right-wing extremist, has died at 89

Horst Mahler, a German Holocaust denier who was once a far-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction, dies at 89