Recivilizing Germans: West and East Germany Week 21, April 21, 2015
The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
West German court in Poland, Auschwitz Memorial
The Spiegel Affair, onal/germany/50th-anniversary- of-the-spiegel-affair-a html The arrest of Rudolf Augstein, the editor in chief
Willy Brandt, SPD politician, chancellor, and architect of the Ostpolitik
New universities and reconstruction of the cities Bielefeld University
Murder of Benno Ohnesorg, June 2, 1967
Arrival of the ‘guest workers’ the millionth guest worker, 1964 (the Portuguese Armando Rodrigues is given a motorbike)
Brandt in Warsaw at the Ghetto Uprising Memorial, 1970
The Ghetto Uprising Memorial, today
Students’ movement and 1968
Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) Some of the founding members at their sentencing 1968
The modern prison: Stammheim
Protests against the nuclear power plants
Decline of the GDR
Important political events 1971 Honecker becomes general secretary of the ZK 1973 oil crisis 1975 Helsinki accords 1976 pastor Brüsewitz sets himself on fire 11/1976 Wolf Biermann forced to emigrate, protest of the GDR intellectuals, (house) arrest of Robert Havemann and Rudolf Bahro, followed by a emigration wave of intellectuals 1977 “coffee crisis” 3/1978 conversation Honecker with the bishop Albrecht Schönherr
Events cont. 9/1978 introduction military education in high schools 1980: begin of “bartering free” and of emigration petitions Billion credits of W Germany to the East
Frederick the Great in the GDR
Women in the GDR
Wage groups according to sex Wage groupPercentage menPercentage women 43,313,4 518,443,3 635,029,4 732,811,9 810,21,9 90,30,1 From Studie Lohnanalyse, 1989
Cold war and photography
Sports: exercise is good, anabolica is better Katharina Witt and Ilona Slupianek (right)
Soccer Jürgen Sparwasser and Lutz Eigendorf (right)
Prenzlauer Berg 1983
Peace protests 1983 Church of the Redeemer
Destroyed environment
Nina Hagen: You forgot the color film QQf8