Divided Memory: Dealing with the Past in the East German Town of Eisenhüttenstadt after the Upheaval of 1989–90 by Stanislav Serhiienko

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Entre Vienne, Londres et Berlin-Est : Eva Schmidt-Kolmer et la genèse transnationale des crèches est-allemandes by Michel Christian

“…East German day nurseries have been at the center of debate in Germany before and after 1989. …”
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Gaëlle Courtaux-Kotbi, Transformation postsocialiste des industries automobiles est-allemandes et tchèques : une application de la théorie des modèles productifs by Gaëlle Courtaux-Kotbi

“…Studying East-German and Czech automotive industries, we question the nature of the firms’ transformation from socialism to post-socialism, as well as the logic of these changes. …”
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Deux patriarcats différents ? Une « dispute entre sœurs » au sein du féminisme allemand au moment de la « réunification » des deux États allemands by Cornelia Möser

“…In analyzing the difficult meeting between West and East German feminists following “reunification” in the early 1990s, this article hopes to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of gender and the sexual politics in the partitioned history of Germany. …”
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L’exil communiste espagnol en RDA : accueil, intégration, retour by Aurélie Denoyer

“…As a consequence of Operation Bolero-Paprika, about a hundred Spaniards were received by the East German state. In this paper, we first propose to study the reception and integration of this group. …”
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‘Another brick in the wall’. On the origins of nationalism in the ‘new’ federal states of Germany by A. V. Belinskii, M. V. Khorol’skaya

“…Particularly, the authors show that the right-wing parties took advantage of popular frustration caused by the collapse of the East German economy after the country’s reunification and massive unemployment by putting all the blame on migrants. …”
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Utopie – ostalgie – nostalgie : aller-retour en ex-RDA by Marina Chauliac

“…The nostalgia of GDR or nostalgie is materialized in a variety of attitudes and feelings about the East German passed society. These can be grouped around two poles: the ostalgie as an enthousiasm for outdated objects and the ostalgie as regret of a model of an egalitarian society. …”
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The East-West-German Productivity Gap: Lessons from firm-level data? by Steffen Müller

“…Abstract According to national accounts, the East German economy is at only 80 % of West German labour productivity even 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. …”
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The association of public health interventions regarding both infant sleep position and pertussis immunization with sudden infant death syndrome rates: an ecological study by Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn, Amir Hakimhashemi, Stefan N. Willich, Sylvia Binting, Thomas Keil

“…Live births and SIDS were available from 1980 onwards for the West German states and from 1991 onwards for the East German states. We applied interrupted time series (ITS) analyses to investigate the role of two public health interventions in 1991 (West Germany) and in 2000 (West and East Germany), respectively. …”
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Eine kurze Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction by Hans Esselborn

“…After the Second World War, there was an ideological split between West and East German literature although they dealt with similar topics like the atomic disaster. …”
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O que acontecerá com o modelo alemão? Engajando fontes de diversidade ao nível da empresa dentro da economia alemã by Stefan Kirchner

“…This article summarizes important challenges by discussing four distinct sources of diversity in Germany’s economy: transformations of the institutional framework; key firm-level sources of diversity in Germany’s economy; SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) as a forgotten pillar of German capitalism; and the East German path in the German model. Overall, the article argues that the traditional German model has been substantially transformed. …”
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Metamorphosis of Mining Landscapes in the Lower Lusatian Lignite Basin (Germany): New Uses and New Image of a Mining Region by Michel Deshaies

“…Since German reunification, the landscapes of the East German lignite basins, which have been shaped by open-cast mining, have undergone a profound transformation as a result of the closure of most of the mines. …”
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Les imaginaires de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage des langues dans trois romans de science-fiction dystopiques by Alexia Jingand

“…In the translation of the Americain novel The Languages of Pao (Vance, 1958), the novel by the French-speaking Algerian 2084 : The End of The World (Sansal, 2015) and the hitherto untranslated East German novel Das kugeltranszendentale Vorhaben (Braun and Braun, 1983), language teacher and learner characters present recurring metadidactic representations that need to be defined and categorised. …”
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The party and political landscape of Germany after the European Parliament elections by Vladislav B. Belov

“…The interim litmus test will be the upcoming September elections to the landtags of the three East German lands, in which the victory of the AFD is predicted. …”
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The Problem of the GDR’s Foreign Policy Identity in the Context of Initiatives in Africa in the 1960s - 1980s by Natalia V. Ivkina

“…In several cases, the comparative method was relevant for breeding the independent policy of the GDR and joint initiatives with the Soviet Union, as well as for comparing East German and West German initiatives. Finally, a content analysis of mutual visits between the GDR and African countries helped to find that the increase in the number of visits was due to the expansion of the areas of interaction between the sides - from primarily economic cooperation to security policy coordination. …”
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East Germany Yesterday and Tomorrow by Dalia Marin

“…But the mood today is gloomy. Two-thirds of East Germans consider themselves second-class citizens, according to a survey by the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research. …”
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