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GDR Economics Minister Günter Mittag Explains the Failure of the Planned Economy (1991)
In retrospect, the GDR’s leading economist Günter Mittag blames the collapse of the East German economy on the rigidity of Erich....
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| 232. |
Decline in Religious Observance among Catholics and Protestants (1960-1989)
Indicators of religious observance declined noticeably in the period 1960 to 1989. The Protestant Church lost 3.5 million members, and the number of Protestant baptisms and weddings was cut in half.....
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Motorization in the FRG and the GDR (1960-1990)
In the last third of the 20th century, the number of cars increased more than six-fold in West Germany and fifteen-fold in the East. While there was one car for every two people in the FRG, there....
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| 234. |
East-West German Immigration Statistics (1961-1990)
Due to improved East-West German relations, the number of people leaving the German Democratic....
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| 235. |
Homosexuality in East Germany (retrospective account, 1994)
Eduard Stapel, a gay rights activist, paints a striking picture of the beginnings of the gay rights movement in East Germany, its role within the Protestant Church, and the response it engendered....
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| 236. |
Statistics on Foreigners in Germany (1950-2001)
These figures for foreigners residing in Germany show a thirteen-fold overall increase during the second half of the twentieth century (i.e., from approximately 500,000 to over seven million). There....
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| 237. |
A Participant Looks Back at the Unrest in East Germany in 1968 (Retrospective Account, 2003)
Florian Havemann, the son of the prominent East German dissident Robert Havemann, looks back at the year 1968 and his one-time hopes for the democratization of....
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| 238. |
Europe as Homeland (Retrospective Account, 2004)
During his chancellorship (1982-1998), Helmut Kohl was known as both a champion of European integration and a loyal native son of the Rhineland-Palatinate. As....
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