On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth.
On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth.
Patrick Major studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of Oxford. He came to know East Berlin during a year living in West Berlin in 1985-86, and was one of the first western researchers allowed into the East German communist party's archives after the fall of the wall in February 1990, for a PhD on The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956 (OUP, 1997) which won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction Part I: Before the Wall 1945-61 2: East Germany's Dual Crisis: Politics and Economics on the Eve of the Wall 3: Crossing the Line: Republikflucht between Defection and Migration 4: Holding the Line: Policing the Open Border Part II: Behind the Wall 1961-89 5: Walled In: 13 August 1961 6: In the Shadow of the Wall 7: Wanderlust: Travel, Emigration and the Movement Part III: Beyond the Wall 8: The Fall of the Wall: 9 November 1989 9: Seeking Closure: Remembering the Wall
1: Introduction Part I: Before the Wall 1945-61 2: East Germany's Dual Crisis: Politics and Economics on the Eve of the Wall 3: Crossing the Line: Republikflucht between Defection and Migration 4: Holding the Line: Policing the Open Border Part II: Behind the Wall 1961-89 5: Walled In: 13 August 1961 6: In the Shadow of the Wall 7: Wanderlust: Travel, Emigration and the Movement Part III: Beyond the Wall 8: The Fall of the Wall: 9 November 1989 9: Seeking Closure: Remembering the Wall
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