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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain
The Rest Is History
The Origins of East Germany
East Germany was carved out of the Third Reich. The question of whether it should ever have existed in the first place is hugely debated, not just by Germans but also I learned from Stalin. Its origins lie in that kind of massive, massive catastrophe that overwhelms Germany over the course of the 20th century. And because of that, you basically have a country, one nation now split into two, which will naturally try and revert to some form of national unity.
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