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31.	Western Impressions of the GDR as an Earlier World (1964) On a trip through East Germany after the building of the Wall, the West German editor of Die Zeit experienced the GDR as a kind of open-air museum for the German past. She failed to perceive....
32.	The Labor Minister Welcomes the Millionth Guest Worker (October 30, 1964) Only four years after the start of systematic recruitment, Labor Minister Theodor Blank marked the arrival of the millionth “guest worker” and described these....
33.	East German Foreign Trade (1956-85) East Germany’s external economic relations showed both its strong trade dependency on the Soviet Union, the dominant player in COMECON,....
34.	Socialist Education (February 25, 1965) The program passed at the SED’s 6th Party Congress in January 1963 called for efforts to restructure East Germany’s education system. With the implementation of the Uniform Socialist Education System....
35.	The Shift from Movies to Television in the Federal Republic (May 8, 1965) West German cultural critics had mixed feelings about the shift from movies to television in the first half of the 1960s. They were ambivalent because they saw this change in leisure habits as indicative....
36.	The Protestant Churches and Eastern Europe (October 15, 1965) In a controversial 1965 memorandum entitled “The Plight of Refugees and the Relationship of the German People to their Eastern Neighbors,” the leaders of the Protestant Churches (which, at the time,....
37.	Official Peace Policy of the GDR (June 28, 1965) The GDR Peace Council, orchestrated by the SED, used its membership in the World Peace Council to launch fierce attacks against the “imperialist” politics of West Germany and the U.S. and to spread....
38.	Walter Ulbricht on the "New Economic System" of the GDR (December 16, 1965) In order to speed the growth of the East German economy, SED leader Walter Ulbricht reviewed the first stage of his New Economic System, which reintroduced market....
39.	Cultural Repression by the SED Central Committee (December 1965) Honecker was appalled by the disquiet that had accompanied prior liberalizations. Thus, under his leadership, the SED reverted to hard-line policies: it rejected demands for freedom of expression....
40.	The Family in Light of Women's Equality (December 20, 1965) The new East German Code of Family Law not only emphasized women’s equality in marriage and the family; it also liberalized the divorce law and addressed the status of children. It provided a foundation....
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