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Divided Germany, the wall and reunification

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August 13, 1961: In the early hours of the morning, construction of the Wall begins in Berlin. The Wall was a symbol of the Cold War that divided the world into East and West. In 1989, a peaceful revolution brought the fall of the Wall, the end of the GDR and paved the way for the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990.

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Learning videos: Traditions and holidays

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Learning videos: Traditions and holidays
© Yuchen Jemeršić, © Goethe-Institut Ljubljana
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The Wall – a border through Germany

The Wall – a border through Germany
© Noir, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Simple Past Bingo

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Simple Past Bingo
© Marcus Lenk
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A day at the Berlin Wall

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A day at the Berlin Wall
© Adobe Stock
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Life in the GDR and the FRG

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Life in the GDR and the FRG
© picture alliance / ZB
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Youth culture in divided Germany

Youth culture in divided Germany
© Harald Hauswald @ Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
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Do walls work?

Do walls work?
© Hermann Schröer © picture alliance/Timeline Images
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Germany between 1945 and 1996

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Germany between 1945 and 1996
© Marine Leduc
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Two German states had existed since 1949. The German Democratic Republic established a one-party socialist rule based on the Soviet model. The Federal Republic emerged under the influence of the Western Allies as a democratic, federalist state. In Berlin, the Wall was erected starting in 1961. There was a Cold War between the great powers. The opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 sealed the end of the GDR state. It paved the way for reunification on October 3, 1990, with the approval of the Allies in the Two Plus Four Treaty. Berlin became the capital and seat of government. But even many years after German reunification put an end to the division of Germany into East and West, some questions remain unanswered: How did the populations of the socialist GDR and the capitalist FRG want to structure their society? What was important to them and what did not work according to plan? What can we learn from these disagreements? How do the earlier worlds of social imagination relate to the present? The materials in the series "Divided Germany, the Wall and Reunification" address these and other questions and this period of German-German history.

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