Recivilizing Germans: West and East Germany 1960-1989

Week 21, April 21, 2015

The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial

West German court in Poland, Auschwitz Memorial

The Spiegel Affair, 1962

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/50th-anniversary-

of-the-spiegel-affair-a-857030.html

The arrest of Rudolf Augstein, the editor in chief

Willy Brandt, 1913-1992

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 group Percentage men Percentage women

4 3,3 13,4

5 18,4 43,3

6 35,0 29,4

7 32,8 11,9

8 10,2 1,9

9 0,3 0,1

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

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdyWLBuQQf8