East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain (TRIH ep 322)
1949 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Katja Hoyer about her new book Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990. The conversation traces the GDR's origins in the Second World War aftermath, the contested decision to create a separate East German state, and the influence of German communists who lived through Stalinist exile and purges.
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Around 1949
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)