Anna Funder’s literary journalist text Stasiland explores the lingering impact that the former German Democratic Republic had upon its citizens. Through investigating the struggles faced by individuals in rebuilding their lives within unified Germany, Funder acknowledges that the horrors of the GDR are still controlling those who once lived under its communist regime. Through the victims Funder interviews, she identifies that as East Germany is rebuilt, so too are its people, as they attempt to find a place within a society once characterised by suppression and oppression. Funder acknowledges the lingering impact of the GDR through depiction of her experiences in unified Germany. Through her characterisation of herself as Anna, Funder contrasts…
Discuss 3 major events from WW2, what were they and how were they related? 3 major events from WW2 are the Attack on Pearl Harbour, The Bombing of Darwin and the Battle of Kokoda. Pearl Harbour was an attack on the US Naval base by the Japanese Navy. The Bombing of Darwin, also known as The Battle of Darwin was the largest single attack ever undertook by a foreign power on Australia. The battle of Kokoda was a 4 month battle between the Japanese and Australians.…
The Soviets immediately made occupying Berlin difficult. The Soviets completely controlled the electricity and other utilities and would not hear to joint control.5 They expected the U.S. to feed oll of Berlin because the Soviets simply would not and could not (which was accurate). The Soviets were also demanding billions in war reparations from Germany. The United States flatly denied…
The lives of people in the West of Berlin were completely different to the lives of people in the East of Berlin. After WWII, Germany split up into states each one governed by one of the allies (the USA, France, England and the Soviet Union) all split equally over the country and capital city, Berlin. The Soviet Union decided to make their state into a communist run state, whereas the other three states decided to lead their states as a democracy much like their own. Due to this disagreement in governing directions, the democratic states made their own republic (the German Democratic Republic (GDR)) and the Soviets created their own republic as well (the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)) and in 1961 the FRG created a wall through the capital…
The United States and allies supplied the city from the air. This is known as the Berlin Airlift and it lasted for more than a year and delivered more than 2.3 million tons of food, fuel, and other goods to West Berlin. The blockade was called off in 1949. In 1952 the East German state sealed off the inner German states. Over the next few years 2.2 million people had moved from East Berlin to West Berlin because of the dictatorial society.…
After World War II, Germany was divided into four parts: the West was controlled by the US, Great Britain and France, and the East was under the control of the USSR. These four countries were allies during World War II and fought against the fascist countries of Japan, Germany and Italy. When the war ended and Germany was divided into four parts, the USSR and the US started the political, economical and military “race” known as the Cold War from 1945 to 1989. The division of Europe from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Balkan Peninsula in the South is famously called the Iron Curtain, and it exemplifies the political differences between France, Great Britain and the US had with the USSR before the Berlin Wall was raised; although the territory…
World War II was a cruel war spanning every corner of the globe, resulting in millions of casualties. Victims of the war suffered brutish force from the Axis and Ally powers alike. Due to this, their experiences were felt on a collective, widespread scale. In the book A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous, the woman suffered horrible rape that made her loathe her own body.…
Berlin is a city full of history. If you take a historic tour or just walk through the streets, it can feel like the histories of ten countries have been stuffed into one city. Palaces, museums, monuments and churches line the street, many bearing scars from the piece of German history that overshadows the rest; 1920s Hitler's rule and the genocide committed under his dictatorship. in the Hitler began his political climb, in 1932 he got over thirty-five percent of the vote, in 1933 he became the Führer of Germany, in 1945 he Committed suicide. Between the beginning of Hitler's rise to power and 1945, the Nazis systematically murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, political opponents, homosexuals, disabled people, and other people deemed…
Introduction: The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) government to stop people form the eastern bloc to escape to the west through West Berlin. Its downfall in November of 1989 was huge news to the world as with its importance it affected the whole world. It was not just uniting a single country again but it also opened the border between the East and West of Europe and the world.…
The arson attack was used by the Nazis to reinforce their argument that Germany needs their party for safety and protection. They propagandized that the Communists were seeking to destroy Germany, A picture of this significant destruction of Reichstag is on display at the museum. After this attack, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, and influenced the President of Germany to briefly suspend most civil liberties of the German citizens, thus allowing Hitler to arrest Communist Parliament members, essentially eliminating his own competition, and promoting his party to the majority party. The Nazi assumption of power in Germany is a direct cause of the…
Over the years, the east of Berlin became a socialist state under Soviet dominion while the West of the city was subjected to British, US and France influence. In 1961, that separation was crystallized by the construction of the Berlin Wall. The Wall divided the German Democratic Republic from the Federal Republic of Germany. East Germans lived under a state-controlled establishment: “Quality supplied, to all by all”, a socialist egalitarian ideal is mentioned at the beginning of the movie. By contrast, the West lived in abundance, influenced by Western powers which provided them financial backing through the Marshall plan.…
After World War II, Germany split through Berlin, making an East and West Berlin. The economic standpoint in East Germany was not sustainable, so that made those citizens want to move over to the West side. Being under Soviet control, the migration of these people started to collapse the East. By August 1961, the Soviets stopping the flow of people by building the Berlin Wall, a infamous symbolic landmark of the Cold War. Two US Presidents, those being JFK and Reagan, commented and wrote speeches to those stopped from achieving their wants and freedoms to those in East Berlin.…
Eventually a wall was put up through the middle of the city, splitting up friends and family members. The soviets blockaded anything going into West Berlin. The people of West Berlin went without food, water, and medical supplies. When General MacArthur…
The Battle of Berlin The Battle of Berlin was fought from April 16, 1945 to May 2, 1945 between German and Soviet Forces. It proved to be the final battle of the European Theatre of World War II and resulted in the complete surrender of the German Forces along with the death of Adolph Hitler.…
The period from 1945 to 1991 is most commonly known as the “Cold War”. This was a time of fear and suspense. The arms race drove both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) to do drastic things to keep up with each other’s weapons. The cold war negatively affected the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., and the world by taking money to spend on arms, giving some children ptsd, and by degrading and endangering the lives of many people.…