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Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by internal tensions and disputes.

1945 und 1990 bilden Zäsuren der deutschen Geschichte, sie stellen jedoch keine „Stunde Null“ dar. Die jeweiligen wirtschaftlichen, sozialen, mentalen oder kulturellen Kontinuitäten sind unübersehbar. Für das vereinte Deutschland gestaltet sich die Vereinigung weitaus problematischer als es wohl die meisten beim Fall der Berliner Mauer geahnt haben. Bis heute prägen die unterschiedlichen Entwicklungen, die Ost und West nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges genommen haben, den Integrationsprozess. Die Unterschiede, aber auch die Gemeinsamkeiten und die Berührungspunkte der beiden deutschen Biographien in zeitgenössischen Dokumenten widerzuspiegeln, ist die Aufgabe dieser Quellensammlung mit ‚Lesebuchcharakter’. Deutschland zwischen 1945 und 1990 ist klassischer Stoff des Geschichtsunterrichts. In diesem Band sind die grundlegenden Quellen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur, Umwelt, Alltag und Mentalitäten multiperspektivisch und kontrovers zusammengestellt.

Historians Dennis and Kolinsky (both affiliated with the U. of Wolverhampton, UK) see the reunification of Germany as a one- directional process in which the social and political model of western Germany was imposed on the eastern half of the country, creating imbalances, failing to replicate the wes

The East German Ministry of State Security, popularly known as the Stasi, was one of the largest and most intrusive secret police systems in world history. So extensive was the system of surveillance and control that in any given year throughout the 1970s and 1980s, about one in fifty of the 13 million East German adults were working for the Stasi either as an officer or as an informer. Drawing on original sources from the Stasi archives and the recollections of contemporary witnesses, The Myth and Reality reveals the intricacies of the relationship between the Stasi enforcers, its agents and its targets/victims, and demonstrates how far the Stasi octopus extended its tentacles into people’s lives and all spheres of society. The origins and developments of this vast system of repression are examined, as well as the motivation of the informers and the ways in which they penetrated the niches of East German society. The final chapters assess the ministry’s failure to help overcome the GDR’s inherent structural defects and demonstrate how the Stasi’s bureaucratic procedures contributed to the implosion of the Communist system at the end of the 1980’s.