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Chapter 15
GDR Repression and Opposition
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Two Germanies (1961-1989)
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Western Impressions of the GDR as a Distant Country (1964)
Wolf Biermann in his Apartment on Chausseestraße, East Berlin (1966)
Wolf Biermann and Robert Havemann (1972)
Stasi Guidelines on the Development and Management of “Operational Cases” (1976)
An East German Definition of Human Rights as Based on Social Equality (September 16, 1976)
Leading GDR Writers Protest the Expatriation of Wolf Biermann (November 17, 1976)
Christian Kunert, Gerulf Pannach, Wolf Biermann, and Jürgen Fuchs in West Berlin (August 1977)
A Communist Idealist Criticizes the “Real Existing Socialism” of the GDR (1977)
Rudolf Bahro (August 1981)
Victim Narrative (Retrospective Account, 2005)
Dacha and Trabi (1979)
Robert Havemann’s “Ten Theses” on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the GDR (September 1, 1979)
Bicycle Demo, East Berlin (July 4, 1982)
Young Christians Propose a “Social Peace Service” as an Alternative to Military Service (December 7, 1982)
Jena Peace Community (May 19, 1983)
An Expelled East German Dissident Explains the Peace Movement (July 21, 1983)
“Women for Peace,” East Berlin (July 3, 1983)
Tree-Planting Initiative at the Samaritan Church in East Berlin (1985)
Peace and Human Rights (1986)
A Western Observer on East German Passive Resistance (1982)
Günter Gaus, Niche Society (1983)
A Liberal Western Journalist Praises the Progress of the GDR (1986)
Umwelt-Bibliothek [Environmental Library] (1987)
Umweltblätter [Environmental Pamphlets] (1987)
An East German Rock ‘n’ Roll Riot at the Wall Turns Political (June 10, 1987)
The Church from Below (1987)
Protest by Dissidents at the Memorial March for Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (January 18, 1988)
The Director of the Central Institute for Research on Youth (Leipzig) on the Progressive Alienation of Young People in the GDR (1988)
The Opposition Charges the SED with Fraud in the May 1989 Local Elections (May 25, 1989)
Stasi Report on the Size and Structure of the East German Opposition (June 1, 1989)
Heiner Müller (1994)
Stasi Prison at Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (2009)
Europe and the World
The Presence of the Past