Willy Brandt

The Soviet Union in conjunction with East German authorities started constructing the Berlin Wall in 1961. This wall separated East and West Berlin. East Germany, desiring to prove to the world that Marxism and communism were viable systems for running a country, decided to keep its citizens from fleeing to the West,. The Wall failed to accomplish this, and fell on November 9, 1989. This was a key moment that marked the end of the Cold War. While the Wall was still up, many problems persisted between

The East Germany government erects a wall to prevent its citizens from going to West Germany. Another historical change was the voting system that changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years (Coy, 1970). The Social Democratic Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt leads the West in easing tension with the East. He kneels in Warsaw before the memorial for the victims of Jewish uprising as a symbol of a German plea for reconciliation. However, subsequent terrorist acts followed which made Germany to debate

Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve had an immense interest in learning about the past, more specifically, the past of my very own ancestors. This interest was what pushed me to start learning German when I was eleven years old. With every year and every German class we learned about sentence structure, verb conjugation, and most importantly, I was introduced to German authors. But, in all of my years of learning German and reading different works, I was never introduced to any German authors

I. Introduction The influence of historical effects on modern economic development has sparked a productive line of work in economic history. Many researchers have tackled the issue of the persistence of historical institutions (e.g. Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson, 2001; Dell, 2010) and their effects on economic outcomes. While most of this research has focused on legal institutions and their consequences, researchers have recently started to explore the persistence of less quantifiable institutions

Introduction The widely acclaimed film, Good Bye, Lenin! (2003), is a tragicomedy set in the immediate period preceding and succeeding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Directed and co-written by Wolfgang Becker, the film was a critical success. It attracted 6 million viewers in Germany alone, was sold to more than 60 countries and won multiple domestic as well as international film awards including six from the European Film Academy (IMDb). Two prominent and intersecting narratives underline

East Germany is a mysterious environment, created by the yearning to camouflage into the greyness of ones surroundings. Intense control limits a human’s capacity to think, without ownership over your thoughts - determining a future and making sense of a tainted and oppressive environment can become paralysing. Therefore, throughout East Germany a truth did not exist as fear had given people the inability to formulate opinions to their full extent. Everyone had an idea as to what had occurred as

Germany: Post War Anomaly Germany has quite an interesting (and difficult) economic development history from World War II and the Nazis into the modern EU power house it is today. Problems set into place by poor government management and an effects of war such as price controls and inflation set by Hitler in 1936 left the German economy in shambles after World War II (Henderson). These policies were typical during war times (also done by the United States and the United Kingdom), but had detrimental

Both The Lives of Others (2006) and Barbara (2012) present a version of life under the oppressive communist regime of East Germany. Despite the similarities, the films have fundamentally different messages to deliver. On the one hand, The Lives of Others is concerned with the system of state oppression as a whole, of course the focus is primarily on a few people’s struggle or interaction with the state, but throughout the film we are given glimpses of how a wide range people become disillusioned

III. Methodology Data and Sample Specifications In order to measure the differences in values and economic outcomes among current Berlin residents, I will use the data from the German Socio-Economic Panel – Remote (GSOEPremote) administered by the German Institute for Economic Research (Schupp, 2017). This panel data consists of surveys administered annually to up to 20’000 respondents, starting in 1984 in West Germany and in 1990 in the East. ZIP-code level data is available for each respondent

This book that I read is called “The Night Divided” by Jennifer A. Nielsen. This story takes place in East Germany right after the government decided to put a wall up to separate the country in half. With the sudden rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve year old Gerta, the main character of the story, finds her family divided overnight. Gerta’s brothers were Fritz, who was the older brother in the group at 14 years old at the time and Dominic, who was the second oldest. Which means that Gerta was left