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Posts about East Germany by Dr Richard Millington. Liverpool, UK. All opinions my own. 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 1d
Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games
A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 6d
Thousands of Germans access Stasi files, 35 years after reunification
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Thousands of Germans access Stasi files, 35 years after reunification | dpa international
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 6d
What do statistics reveal about Germany 35 years after reunification?
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What do statistics reveal about Germany 35 years after reunification?
35 years after German reunification, Destatis has released a series focusing on statistical differences between eastern and western federal states today.
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 6d
35 years later, beloved East German car still sputters on
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 6d
Divided again? 35 years after reunification, Germany feels it is growing apart

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Divided again? 35 years after reunification, Germany feels it is growing apart - The Berliner
35 years after reunification, most Germans believe the nation is growing apart, with East Germans feeling the divide most strongly.
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 6d
35 years after Berlin Wall, East German football struggling
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35 years after Berlin Wall, East German football struggling – DW – 10/02/2025
East Germany's political collapse was mirrored in football, but a focus on youth brings hope for the future.
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Kristian Ross @kristian7ross.bsky.social · 6d
35 years today, Germany was reunified.

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Where does Germany stand 35 years after reunification? – DW – 10/03/2025
There is still a wide gap between the former East and West Germany, even amongst young people who have only ever lived in a unified country. The new commissioner for eastern Germany attempts to explai...
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 10d
Read a Stasi file this morning on an alleged case of rape between two men. The Stasi accused the apparent rapist of hypnotising the other man into a suggestive state of mind... #GDR
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 14d
East German Campers Keep Traditions Alive
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East German Campers Keep Traditions Alive
Former East Germany campers gather in Leipzigast twice a year to relive a shared past more than three decades after reunification.
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 14d
'Everything has changed here': East Side Gallery turns 35
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'Everything has changed here': East Side Gallery turns 35 – DW – 09/24/2025
Once a place for alternative lifestyles, now a monument surrounded by offices and luxury apartments: Few other places in Berlin symbolize change as much as the East Side Gallery.
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Kristian Ross @kristian7ross.bsky.social · 20d
My first ever post on Substack and this one is all about how I came to follow Dynamo Dresden.

Hopefully the first of many football related article.

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#SGD1953 | #2Bundesliga | #NUFC
Making a Club Yours: The Real Romance of Football
From Newcastle to Dresden: Finding What a Club Really Means
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 23d
Berlin's Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion
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Berlin's Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion
The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would have loved how easily you can hide cameras and microphones now.
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 24d
Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever
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Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever
Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 24d
Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever
Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience
www.theguardian.com
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · 24d
East Germany's divisive Plattenbau back in spotlight
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East Germany's divisive Plattenbau back in spotlight – DW – 09/13/2025
A cheap way to manage the housing shortage in former GDR cities, the prefab concrete buildings were long derided for their monotony. Their cultural legacy is now being explored anew.
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Vinyl Vulture @totally4sure.bsky.social · Aug 26
Ich habe dieses Buch heute aus Rumänien geliefert bekommen.
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 26
Berlin's memorial to victims of communism 'long overdue' p.dw.com/p/4zMCh?maca...
Berlin's memorial to victims of communism 'long overdue' – DW – 08/24/2025
In 2019, the Bundestag voted to create a memorial for the victims of communism. Progress on the project has stalled, but there are now plans to move forward.
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 26
New book alert! 'Generation GDR' guardianbookshop.com/generation-g...
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 23
Bob Dylan – East Berlin 1987 Review cultfollowing.co.uk/2025/08/17/b...
Bob Dylan – East Berlin 1987 Review
A surprise performance in East Berlin showcases a surreal quality on stage from Bob Dylan during a time when his studio releases were below par.
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 22
German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit
Eisenhüttenstadt offered spacious central flats rent-free for two weeks in effort to attract valuable professionals
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 18
From my research: between 1983 and 1984, Mario Stiebitz killed four children, one adult, and planned the abductions and killings of a further twenty children in and around Neubrandenburg in the #GDR. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_S...
Mario Stiebitz - Wikipedia
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 13
History Today: When construction on the Berlin Wall began in 1961
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History Today: When construction on the Berlin Wall began in 1961
On this day in 1961, soldiers in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began construction on the Berlin Wall – separating the communists backed by the Soviet Union from the Federal Republic of...
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 13
Rare Footage of British Soldiers in Cold War West Germany (1964) youtu.be/9oHpR-1u-xM?...
Rare Footage of British Soldiers in Cold War West Germany (1964)
YouTube video by ITN Archive
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 8
‘Sibylle’: how East Germany produced its own ‘Vogue’ under socialism dangerousminds.net/history/siby...
Sibylle: the East German vogue‑like fashion magazine
Sibylle was the GDR’s leading fashion and culture magazine (1956–1995), combining artful photography and sewing patterns under socialist constraints.
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EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social · Aug 4
Stasi: How the GDR kept its citizens under surveillance
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Stasi: How the GDR kept its citizens under surveillance – DW – 08/01/2025
Do all intelligence agents live like James Bond? Not those who worked for East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Stasi). A new book reveals the mundane lives of the agents.
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