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Article: East Germany under the communists.(The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- March 22, 2007
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The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker. Mary Fulbrook. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]19.95. xiv + 350 pages.
The German Democratic Republic, in existence from 1949 to 1990, was in most ways a completely different society in contrast to its western counterpart, the Federal Republic. Both countries came into being as a direct result of the Second World War, with the eastern part under the tutelage of the Soviet Union and the western part, under Allied guidance. The GDR was incorporated into the Federal Republic in October 1990, as a direct result of the end of the Cold War. What happened in the eastern part of Germany between the ...