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271.	Why Don't Our Parents Tell the Truth? (August 1959) This article, which was published in the teen magazine Twen in 1959, foreshadows the youth’s revolt against the old elites and the generational conflict of the 1960s. It also serves as a reminder....
272.	"Ten Years of Social Policy in the Two German States": Article by the Former Director of Social Security of the GDR, Paul Peschke (October 1959) The GDR saw the introduction of a comprehensive social safety net for its citizens – guaranteed work, housing, free medical care, and pensions – as an important accomplishment of Socialism. At the....
273.	Godesberg Program of the SPD (November 1959) After the SPD suffered election defeats by Konrad Adenauer’s CDU in 1953 and 1957, there was a growing awareness within the SPD that attracting new strata of voters would have to involve a fundamental....
274.	"The Strict Husband": Letters from Readers of Neues Deutschland (November 14, 1959) The constitutional equality of men and women in the GDR and the politically desired employment of women collided in daily life with conventional ideas about gender roles. This letter to the editor....
275.	Law on the Socialist Development of the School System in the German Democratic Republic (December 2, 1959) The reform of the GDR school system on the basis of Socialist principles reached a temporary conclusion in 1959. Henceforth, the ten-grade schools introduced at the beginning of the 1950s represented....
276.	Submission to the Secretariat of the Central Council of the Free German Youth: Gang Activity among Young People in Berlin (December 4, 1959) At the end of 1959, the Central Council of the Free German Youth [Freie Deutsche Jugend or FDJ], the central youth organization in East Germany, spoke out against the increasing “rowdyism”....
277.	A Twen Stroll through Berlin (1960) Published in the influential teen magazine Twen, this account of cultural, culinary, and leisure-time offerings in 1960 Berlin shows how far the city had come since the immediate postwar period.....
278.	Anita Grandke, "Does the Working Woman Destroy her Family?" (June 11, 1960) This article from the SED mouthpiece Neues Deutschland praised the ideal of the “socialist family” in which both spouses created the basis for a fulfilling family life through equal participation....
279.	Press Statement by Maria Weber, Main Department "Women in the DGB," on the Working Woman and the Social Situation of the Family (August 30, 1960) The DGB [Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or Confederation of German Trade Unions] pointed to several reasons for the rising ratio of working women in West Germany: they included the strong need....
280.	Comment by a Female Teacher after a Lecture by Kurt Hager on the Situation in Schools (October 1960) This comment by a female teacher after a 1960 speech by the SED’s chief ideologue, Kurt Hager, was unsparing in its description of the burdens imposed on GDR women by the demands of family and work.....
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