DDR-Guide

Nestling behind the Iron Curtain, the 16 million inhabitants of the German Democratic Republic have come to be viewed as a care-worn people forced to make do and mend with only nude swimming and a special form of pickled gherkin to enliven a very drab life? What was life really like under Socialism? Was is all Stasi repression and shortages or a Socialist paradise of full employment and social security? This companion volume to the exhibition introduces readers to life as lived under German Socialism - 66 chapters telling a scintillating yet balanced story recreated by inhouse experts of the DDR Museum.