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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain
The Rest Is History
The Rise of the Free German Youth
In the 40s and early 50s, you can move quite freely from one Germany to the other. So we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people from East to West. And presumably also, I mean, there's a relative degree of normality must have generated both relief but a certain sense of loyalty towards this kind of emergent communist state. There was a kind of defiance against the idea that they were almost like three steps back. Now they had to fight for themselves and create their own country with their own hard graft as it were.
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