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- East Germans loved getting naked. A surprising one to end our article. Germans are associated with nudity around the world, and naturism was especially popular in the GDR.
- The Berlin Wall literally fell on November, 9, 1989. In 1989, national financial difficulties, and the collapse of communist regimes nearby undermined the SED’s rule.
- The GDR accepted birth control and premarital sex as part of life. The GDR had a very liberal attitude towards sex. Unlike the more conservative West, East Germans saw premarital sex and the use of contraception as normal and acceptable.
- East German kids loved a comic called Mosaik. On a lighter note, most East German children read a comic called Mosaik. Set up to rival Western comics, Mosaik is still published today, 64 years after its first issue.
e. East Berlin ( German: Ost-Berlin; pronounced [ˈɔstbɛʁˌliːn] ⓘ) was the capital city of East Germany (GDR) from 1948 to 1990, although in 1945, it was recognised by the Three Powers (United States, United Kingdom, and France) as the Soviet occupation sector of Berlin. The American, British, and French sectors were known as West Berlin.
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Nov 8, 2019 · This explains why, over the nearly three decades of the Berlin Wall, thousands of people tried to escape from the East to the West. While the Cold War never resulted in direct military conflict, 140 East Berliners were shot trying to cross into the West. When the Wall came up, in 1961, a sixth of the East German population had already moved West.
Dec 15, 2009 · On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist...
Nov 8, 2019 · Since the early morning of August 13, 1961, it became known that GDR was separating East Berlin from West Berlin with barbed road blocks and walls. Frieda Schulze escapes out of the window of...
Jul 10, 2019 · Karl-Liebknecht Strasse 1. The DDR Museum is dedicated to showing what life was like in East Berlin during the communist era. Sean Gallup/Getty. East Side Gallery.
Jan 16, 2013 · Distillations magazine. Over the Wall: Six Stories from East Germany. When Communist East Germany built a wall across Berlin, it created two different cities, two different countries, and for scientists two different careers. West Berliners looking over the wall to East Berlin, 1963.
