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Poorly Planned Holidays (1953)
Tourism started up again in the 1950s in the GDR as well. This report on supply difficulties and the uneven utilization of Baltic Sea resorts during the high season of 1953 makes clear that the tourism....
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Press Review: "Where to Put the Baby?" Critical Voices on the Subject of Day Nurseries (1953)
In the 1950s, the GDR government vigorously promoted female employment, and it celebrated the rising ratio of women in the workforce as a breakthrough toward gender equality. One indispensable precondition....
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Pro and contra Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Behrendt and Theodor W. Adorno (1953)
In the fall of 1953, the cultural philosopher and music theorist Theodor W. Adorno, who had emigrated to the U.S. in 1938 and had returned to Frankfurt to join the Institute for Social Research in....
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The Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED on the Junge Gemeinde [Young Congregation] (January 27, 1953)
In their efforts to gain a political hold on East German youth through Socialist schools and youth groups such the Young Pioneers and the Free German Youth (FDJ), the East German government and the....
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The Chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Fulda, Cardinal Joseph Frings, on the Reorganization of the Marriage and Family Law (January 30, 1953)
The Protestant and Catholic churches were active participants in the West German debate in the early 1950s over reforming the provisions of the Civil Code that pertained to marriage and family law.....
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The German Camping Club (1953)
The economic upswing in West Germany in the 1950s enabled the return of tourism, which had largely ground to a halt during the final years of the war and the postwar period. With a growing number....
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| 198. |
Directive on Republikflucht (March 18, 1953)
The GDR leadership strove to counter Republikflucht (the flight of East Germans from the German Democratic Republic to the West) on a variety of levels. In March 1953, the SED district leader....
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"That Was When I Knew: I Had to Become a Refugee" (March 19, 1953)
The vast majority of GDR refugees in the 1950s fled via the easily crossable border between the Soviet sector and the Western sectors in Berlin. After a temporary stay in provisional camps, they....
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From the Resolution of the 13th Meeting of the Central Committee of the SED (May 14, 1953)
The 13th meeting of the Central Committee of the SED took place on May 13-14, 1953. A report on its decisions appeared in the Tägliche Rundschau on May 17. In the excerpt reprinted below,....
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