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Learn about East Germany with iMinds insightful knowledge series. In East Germany, it was not uncommon to hear of secret police patrolling the streets dressed as civilians. It was not unusual to find hidden cameras lying in garbage cans. Ar… more

This is the story of Andre Baganz, the son of a black father and a white mother, who was born into communist East Germany. Being an outsider, he was desperate to leave this country. After a failed attempt to escape, he was remanded in custo… more

The book describes growing up in Germany after the Second World War and how the protagonist becomes a Black Beret in the German Armoured Reconnaissance Battalions and being stationed at the Iron Curtain for many years. It describes the poli… more

Growing up in Prussia (East Germany) was a wonderful experience for a young boy born into a Prussian diplomats family. That all changed when World War II began and at the age of fourteen, Gerd Brandt was swept up into a Russian POW camp and… more

My new fiancée Betty and I were sitting on the couch, watching the Westminster Kennel Club dog show when she looked over at me and casually said, “My first orgasm came from a dog.”As I sat there stunned, trying to control my reactions and c… more

A thought-provoking trip into former forbidden territory: “East West Real Life” includes travel notes, conversations and diary entries from a trip to Leipzig in East Germany – a trip that was supposed to be about books, and ended up being a… more

Following World War II, little has changed in Berlin. The Swastika has been replaced by the Hammer and Sickle, and the soldiers by secret police, but a life of daily oppression and fear remains. Inspired by the teachings of Joseph Schumache… more

Leonard Tramer and his family live in Colorado, trapped behind the walls of a totalitarian state. Dedicated to one another and determined to find the free world, they plan an escape which defies the odds and deceives their tyrannical govern… more

As her family tries to escape from East Germany over the Berlin Wall, young Honiga Milch and her mother and father are captured. Abused by the soldiers and expecting at the very least to be sentenced to a labour camp or, more probably, kill… more

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST IMPACT ON EAST GERMANY A Clasified US Intelligence Working Paper…. The East German leadership has demonstrated i n its public statements a much greater respect for Mao, personally and f o r Mao’sthought than have … more

This memoir turns on the author’s immigration to South Carolina at age 13, her childhood spent shuttling back and forth between East and West Germany, and her struggle with the meaning of home as Germany transformed from two states to one. … more

Wheels of Life presents a heartbreaking memoir that begins in East Germany in the years immediately preceding World War II. Hannelore Fiebig tells the story of growing up with her sister and brother and their family in their family apartmen… more

President Monson recounts his feelings, experiences, conversations, and meetings, presenting his journal entries that highlight Germany and its people in entries dating from July 12, 1968, to August 27, 1995. President Monson describes ever… more

“Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible… . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic.” —Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books ofthe Year” AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered ac… more

In the midst of the Cold War, Jacob, the NSA’s youngest and most ingenious CODEBREAKER stationed in West Berlin, is forcefully recruited by the brutal East German Secret Service, known as the STASI, after his ‘forbidden’ relationship to Mis… more

As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down t… more

At the turn of the millennium, the author set out on an epic journey across the new, ‘borderless’ Europe. In the former Soviet satellite states of Poland and East Germany, he finds that the Russians have all gone home, but the legacy of occ… more

Intrigue, terrorists, twisted government officials on both sides of the crumbling Iron Curtin, make for an exciting and intense read. Who the enemy is may cause concern.While the wall separating East Germany from West Germany was being torn… more

Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always two-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow.Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy o… more

This astonishing novel begins in 1907, when Josef Siedler, a science-fiction devotee, ventures deep into a series of caves in search of an entrance to the underworld. Disappointed in his quest, he nonetheless returns with a peculiar souveni… more