Elle’s Reviews > Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 > Status Update
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“Where was the love for voting, citizens’ rights and a pluralistic society meant to come from? What the German public wanted was not an array of parties on a voting slip every four years but food on the table, a restored roof over their heads and a future without war and economic disaster.”
— Mar 26, 2025 05:58AM
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Elle
is on page 264 of 496
Okay, random anecdote about a red American singer irrelevant to the preceding and following section. So weird.
— Mar 31, 2025 07:52PM
Elle
is on page 125 of 496
“Brigitte Fritschen, then only nine years old, remembered how angry her mother was that the local doctors in Pirna, Saxony, had moved away, leaving the population without adequate medical care.” Yes, but with doctors like those, who needs undertakers?
— Mar 26, 2025 06:31PM
Elle
is on page 109 of 496
“A middle-aged German in 1949 had seen the whole spectrum of political systems in their lifetime, but none of the offerings had shown a functioning democracy.”
— Mar 26, 2025 05:57AM
Elle
is on page 65 of 496
There’s something in this book for everyone to hate: either she’s too fond of the DDR or she’s being too generous to the aristocrats. For my part, I don’t feel particularly sympathetic even to the antifa barons of the old aristocracy. Once Germany became a democracy under any stamp, there was no reason not to disband the old symbols of feudalism. Turn them all into public museums and hotels, I say.
— Mar 24, 2025 06:57PM
