Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of their wartime su

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An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in

"A detailed introductory essay to provide the necessary historical and political context precedes each part. The individual documents are introduced by short he