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Posts about East Germany by Dr Richard Millington. Liverpool, UK. All opinions my own. 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧
@kristian7ross.bsky.socialReposted by @ddronline.bsky.socialEpisode 4 of #TheGrandTour is a must watch.
There’s a wonderful segment in Berlin where James Engelsman talks about how the BMW Isetta was used by Klaus-Günter Jacobi (pictured) to smuggle his friend Manfred Koster from East to West in 1964.
Photos: Amazon
@ddronline.bsky.socialGermany marks 36 years of unity: Why was the country divided and how united is it today?
www.euronews.com/2026/10/03/g...
@ddronline.bsky.socialHistory, Germany, populism and global polycrisis
timothygartonash.substack.com/p/history-ge...
@ddronline.bsky.social'German reunification: Why being East German matters again'
amp.dw.com/en/german-re...
@ddronline.bsky.social'Who's afraid of the Stasi?' An article by myself published a few years ago in History Today
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
@ostmoderne.bsky.socialReposted by @ddronline.bsky.social"Arbeiten für den Frieden" (Working for Peace), by Walter Womacka, 1965 📍 Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
@ddronline.bsky.socialJust seen this advertised!
@ddronline.bsky.socialEast Germans who experienced repression during the GDR show higher distress and systemic inflammation, study finds
www.psypost.org/east-germans...
@ddronline.bsky.socialCold War espionage added $4.6 billion to East Germany’s economy
www.popsci.com/technology/c...
@ddronline.bsky.socialHow growing up in East Germany affected cognitive health in later life
www.psypost.org/how-growing-...
@ddronline.bsky.social'I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@ddronline.bsky.socialShades of East Berlin at Sefton Park in Liverpool today. Wonder what's going on here.
@ddronline.bsky.socialI spoke to four young western Germans today - the oldest 23 - about Sachsen-Anhalt and the election result. The responses - 'Stop giving them money!', 'Idiots!', 'they are all backwards over there' - shocked me, I must admit
@ddronline.bsky.socialSad and frightening times for my friends in Magdeburg.
