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THE WALLS THAT REMAIN

The Berlin Wall, erected in August 1961, rent the capital city in two for the succeeding twenty-eight years of the Walls existence.

This book is a truly impressive work. It is beautifully conceived and executed, as well as intellectually and morally engaging.

Christian Soe, California State University at Long Beach

This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the functioning of dictatorship. I am most impressed by the beautiful essayistic style and sovereign command of German conversational language and everyday slang.

Karl-Heinz FuessI, Institute for Education and History, Humboldt University, Berlin

One of the most appealing features of the book is Roddens lively, witty, and forceful writing style. This style is thoroughly compatible with the books sound scholarship.

Walter Sokel, University of Virginia

This stimulating book is written with grace. It is a fascinating portrait gallery of GDR life.

Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College

I have been most impressed by Roddens scholarly expertise, profound philosophical grasp, and power of verbal and intellectual expression. His book is fascinating, sometimes even thrilling to read, and it addresses a public far beyond academic specialists.

Wolfgang Strauss, University of Jena

The Walls

That Remain

Eastern and Western Germans Since Reunification

John Rodden

First published 2008 by Paradigm Publishers

Published 2016 by Routledge

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ISBN 978-1-59451-379-4 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rodden, John.

The walls that remain : eastern and western Germans since reunification / by John Rodden.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-59451-379-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Germany--History--Unirication, 1990--Personal narratives. 2. Germany--Social life and customs--1990-3. Germany--Social conditions--1990- 4. Social change--Germany. 5. National characteristics, German. I. Title.

DD290.26.R63 2007

943.088--dc22

2007012558

CONTENTS

The Freedom Wall: On November 910, 1989, the world watched in awe as East and West Germans danced atop the Wall, symbolically throwing off the chains of the Cold War and liberating themselves from four decades of alienation from each other. Sadly, this uncharacteristically German joie de vivre proved short-lived. Within a few weeks, Teutonic Weltschmerz triggered by the tensions of reunifying both countries overtook the brief honeymoon feelings.

To

Ilse Kathinka Robaschik,
Thomas Robaschik,
Rudi Walter,
and Karin Walter,

who made my German journeys
so wondrous and unforgettable.

Although I have sought to minimize the use of acronyms in the main text, the following list includes abbreviations used throughout the notes and in selected chapters of the book, either for purposes of illustration or economy.

German-language acronyms are translated on first citation in the text, but are included here for ease of reference.

ARD	Arbeitsgemeinschaft der ffentlichen Rundfunksanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. The Joint Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations of the Federal Republic of Germany.
BRD	Bimdesrepublik Deutschland. Federal Republic of Germany. Used by Communist officials to refer to West Germany, in order to place West Germany on an equal level with the GDR; avoided by West German officials for this same reason.
CDU	Christlich-Demokratische Union. Christian Democratic Union party, or Christian Democrats.
CPSU	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
DDR	Deutsche Demokratische Republik. German Democratic Republic.
DIAMAT	Dialectical Materialism. Shorthand term, along with M-L, for required university courses in Marxism, as well as for Marxist philosophy itself.
DKP	Deutsche Kommunistische Partei. German Communist Party of West Germany.
DM	Deutsche Mark. The (West) German mark, or D-Mark.
EC	European Community (formerly known as the EEC, European Economic Community)
EOS	Erweiterte Oberschule. The advanced high school of the GDR (11th and 12th grades).
FDJ	Freie Deutsche Jugend. Free German Youth. The GDRs mass youth organization for 14- to 25-year-olds.
HJ	Hitler-Jugend. Hitler Youth, the NSDAP mass youth organization.
IM	Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter. Unofficial employee. A Stasi informant.
JP	Junge Pioniere. Young Pioneers, the GDR youth organization for 1st through 3rd grades. The acronym was not in use orally in the GDR, but is frequently found in official GDR publications.
KA	kapitalistisches Ausland. Capitalist foreign country.
KPD	Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands. Communist Party of Germany, founded in 1919. Refers to the pre-World War II party.
M-L	Marxismus-Leninismus. Marxism-Leninism. See also DIAMAT.
MfS	Ministerium fr Staatssicherheit. Ministry of State Security of the GDR (also known as SSD and Stasi.
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NKVD	Ministry of State Security in the USSR, i.e., the Soviet secret police. Term used during Stalinist era. It was superseded by the MVD in 1946.

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