GDR-Guide: A companion to the permanent exhibition

by Sören Marotz, Elke Sieber, Stefan Wolle

Nestling behind the Iron Curtain, the 16 million inhabitants of the German Democratic Republic have come to be viewed as a care-worn people forced to make do and mend with only nude swimming and a special form of pickled gherkin to enliven a very drab life? What was life really like under Socialism? Was is all Stasi repression and shortages or a Socialist paradise of full employment and social security?
This companion volume to the exhibition introduces readers to life as lived under German Socialism - 66 chapters telling a scintillating yet balanced story recreated by inhouse experts of the DDR Museum.

Paperback

Published July 31, 2017

Reviews

[Sara Romero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy visual, muy claro y muy útil para entender la RDA.

[Milan Perišić · Rating 2 out of 5]

L'edizione in Italiano è criminale

[Michael Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked this up while looking at the exhibits in the DDR Museum in former East Berlin. Not only is this book a good companion piece for the exhibits, it contains essays on the formation, politics, and daily life of East Germany during the forty years of its existence, which ended a year after the Berlin wall came down and the two Germanys were united in 1990. A very informative and enjoyable book.