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4 days ago · The Stasi files are like a history of the United States told through the annals of the F.B.I. and the C.I.A.: a succession of wiretaps, interrogations, political coups, and misinformation—an ...
5 days ago · The systematic persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II stands as one of the most horrific and deeply disturbing episodes in human history.
2 days ago · Jeffrey Sachs: The Untold History of the Cold War, CIA Coups Around the World, and COVID's Origin. Robin Westenra. May 29, 2024. Share. Professor Jeffrey Sachs is the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is the author of many best selling ...
5 days ago · May 26, 2024. The Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), known in English as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was the socialist state that existed in East Germany from 1949 until 1990. Established in the Soviet-occupied zone after World War II, the DDR became a focal point of Cold War tensions as the westernmost part of the Soviet bloc ...
4 days ago · The GDR was separated from West Germany by heavily fortified borders, most infamously the Berlin Wall erected in 1961. For four decades, East Germans lived under a repressive regime characterized by a centrally planned economy, travel restrictions, and surveillance by the notorious Stasi secret police.
3 days ago · Radio Free Europe first began transmitting from its headquarters in Munich, West Germany, on July 4, 1950, to Czechoslovakia. Soon it was transmitting to most of the Soviet-dominated countries and in 15 languages. The station was funded by the U.S. Congress through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). However, CIA involvement was kept secret ...
15 hours ago · Germany, country of north-central Europe. Although Germany existed as a loose polity of Germanic-speaking peoples for millennia, a united German nation in roughly its present form dates only to 1871. Modern Germany is a liberal democracy that has become ever more integrated with and central to a united Europe.
