Jul 29, 2021
What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the
Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service
folded.
For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in
manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Almost a
hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced...
Jun 27, 2021
Thanks to Tim Mohr for taking time to speak with John Paul Kleiner (GDR Objectified blog) and Prof. Ed Larkey (University of Maryland - Baltimore County) about his book Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Tim's book is well worth a read and you don't have to be into punk music...
Jun 11, 2021
In this episode of Radio GDR - the East Germany podcast, we are
joined by Patrick Hoffmann, assistant director, pedagogue and
historian at Borderland Museum Eichsfeld, one of the more than 20
museums along the former Inner German Border
Founded in 1995, the museum sits at the border crossing point
Duderstadt-Worbis,...
May 31, 2021
From being raised by a World War 2 veteran who spent time in a Soviet prison camp to having of view of the Berlin Wall from her apartment to meeting westerners like Celeste and her family who she finally visited in California after the wall fell, Adelheid has quite a story to tell!
May 20, 2021
This episode of Radio GDR, the East Germany podcast, lives up to
Paul Harvey's famous expression, "and now you know the rest of the
story."
In episode 24, Shane Whaley interviewed Eric Friedman who, as a
10-year old boy in 1988, accompanied his mother Celeste Barber, a
teacher in the English Department at Santa Barbara...