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Ikea pledges millions over use of forced labour in East Germany

Ikea has pledged to contribute €6 million to a hardship fund for victims of the former East German dictatorship, acknowledging that some of its suppliers had used political prisoners as forced labourers.

Radio France Internationale

Former Stasi official sentenced to 10 years for 1974 Berlin border murder

Czeslaw Kukuczka was shot in the back as he tried to flee from East Germany via the Berlin Wall on March 29, 1974.

Al Jazeera

Former officer with East Germany’s secret police sentenced to prison for a border killing in 1974

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 years ago

The Independent UK

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Not just AfD: What’s the BSW, Germany’s rising populist left party?

The party founded in January espouses anti-NATO, anti-immigrant populist rhetoric while promoting left-wing economics.

Al Jazeera

Why German reunification is still a good idea

When asked about my opinion on German reunification, I usually respond that I think it is a good idea, and that we should do it. This is, of course, a joke, as Germany is now united with no official internal borders. However, 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall,…

The Conversation

Hundreds of homes to be built on Tube station car park after Transport Secretary ditches Tory veto

TfL’s tower block scheme was described by MP as ‘overbearing’ and like East Germany

Evening Standard

Far-left Rebel Seeking Peace With Putin Rocks German Politics

A radical far-left politician who wants to make peace with Russia's Vladimir Putin looks set to play a key role in regional elections in the former East Germany on Sunday.

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Pessimism Dogs Eastern Germany Despite Economic Gains

With its shiny new housing estates, scores of building sites and bustling city centre, Jena represents the fresh face of the former East Germany.

International Business Times

Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

In the 1980s, a company called Superfest pioneered extra strong glass – but it disappeared with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now it’s making a comeback

The Guardian - UK

UEFA Euro 2024 finals stage reopens east-west football divide in Germany

Of the 10 host cities staging UEFA Euro 2024, only one is in the former East Germany. Can the playing field be levelled?

Al Jazeera

‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos

A pulse-quickening novel about a tempestuous age-gap relationship at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall has won the top prize for translated fiction. The German author and her translator discuss how it entwines the personal and political

The Guardian - UK

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker prize

Erpenbeck is the first German writer and Michael Hofmann the first male translator to win the £50,000 prize for novel which tells the story of a relationship set against the collapse of East Germany

The Guardian - UK

What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west

The far-right AfD is leading the polls in former GDR regions – and longstanding bias in German media and politics is partly to blame, says German-British historian Katja Hoyer

The Guardian - UK

'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a team of archivists has been tirelessly sorting, pasting and reassembling documents that were destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police. Nicknamed the "Puzzle Women", these heroines of collective memory face the Herculean task of piecing together these files:…

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The Guardian - UK

The Berlin Wall is opened for Christmas – archive, 1963

In December 1963, an agreement between East and West Germany allowed West Berliners to obtain one-day passes to visit relatives in East Berlin

The Independent UK

Former agent of East Germany's Stasi agency is charged over the 1974 border killing of a Polish man

Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974

The Conversation

Berlin blockade 75 years on: how Russian occupation tactics in Ukraine echo Soviet actions in East Germany

A Soviet blockade of the three western sectors of Berlin started on June 24 1948. At that point, the city, like the rest of Germany, was split into areas of Russian, British, US and French control as part of the post-second world war settlement that was shaped in allied conferences…

The Guardian - UK

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – a monumental breakup

The contours of a relationship are echoed by the collapse of East Germany in this invigorating novel of lost love

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From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

Evening Standard

Vlad Yatsenko net worth | Evening Standard Tech Rich List

Born to Ukrainian parents in communist East Germany, the software developer Vlad Yatsenkopreviously worked for Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, where he built traditional financial systems.

The Guardian - UK

‘The GDR was safe for me’: Disney drama tells story of former East Germany’s first black police officer

Samuel Meffire was the face of an ad campaign to show a different side to the former GDR but later served time for armed robbery

WhatToWatch

Sam — A Saxon: release date, cast, plot, trailer, episode guide and all about the true-life drama following a black East German cop

Sam — A Saxon on Disney Plus stars Malick Bauer and follows the true story of the first black police officer in East Germany.

The Guardian - UK

Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – the human face of the socialist state

This revisionist history of East Germany paints a picture of a land that catered for its people’s needs – albeit while subjecting them to constant state surveillance

The Guardian - UK

Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – overturning cliches of East Germany

A revisionist history that adds stability, contentment and women’s rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism

The Guardian - UK

Siblings by Brigitte Reimann review – a family split in a divided Germany

This vivid autobiographical novel – now published in English for the first time – offers an intriguing insight into East Germany in the early 60s

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