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FOCUS childhood : An East German childhood: ‘People took off their clothes to express their freedom’

An East German childhood: ‘People took off their clothes to express their freedom’

West Germans often subscribe to a pretty grim idea of life growing up behind the wall in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Yet although East German children had few toys and less holidays, were they really less happy than their western counterparts? Eik, 29, recalls his Soviet upbringing

by Bruno van den Elshout @ // 17/08/09

childhood, holiday, school system, berlin wall, eastern germany, gdr, school

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