Berlin Episode 09 In Search of East Berlin

City Breaks

What has happened to the GDR (German Democratic Republic), the country which was created when the Berlin Wall went up and which then disappeared when it came down? What was life in East Berlin like between August 1961 and November 1989? And where in today’s Berlin can you find out all about it? Here are three museum suggestions, plus a little of what they tell us.

Reading suggestions for this post
Red Love by Maxim Leo
Stasiland by Anna Funder
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding

Film suggestions
The Lives of Others
Goodbye, Lenin

Useful links
The DDR Museum
The Stasi Museum
Hohenschonhausen Museum and Memorial

Berlin Tourist Information Centres
Inspiring Germany Tourist Information

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