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Images on eastern Germany: football, borders and memories (12 photos)

FOCUS eastern germany : 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 - 2 Comment

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

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Opening of the borders, 1989

By Ádám Terjék Translated by Judit Révész The picture of the opening of the Hungarian-Austrian border in 1989 is living vividly in my memory: in the television news of 10 September 1989 a group of East German tourists exult and rejoice at the announcement of Gyula Horn, Hungarian foreign minister ...

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