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231.	Die Zeit: "The Great Head-wagging about Young People" (1956) In the 1950s, the question of how to deal with young people became an important topic of social policy in West Germany. The so-called Halbstarke (hooligans), a term used partly in irony and....
232.	Adolf Busemann, "Barbarization and Brutalization" (1956) Adolf Busemann decries the alarming rise in youth crime in West Germany in the 1950s. As he explains, youths were committing both more and more serious criminal acts. For Busemann, the rise in recorded....
233.	Heinz Kluth, "The 'Hooligans' [Halbstarke] – Legend or Reality?" (1956) In 1950s West Germany, the traditional values of the older generation clashed with the new and different ideas of young people, which found expression in new forms of dress, music, and leisure-time....
234.	Statistical Report on the Development of the Standard of Living in the German Democratic Republic and in the Federal Republic of Germany (1956) The planned economy of the GDR aimed chiefly to secure the basic needs of the population. This 1956 report by the State Planning Commission of the GDR revealed that East German citizens paid less....
235.	The Academic Success of Negermischlinge ["Mixed-race Negroes"]. Study by the Institute for Natural and Humanistic Anthropology (1956) Between 1945 and 1955, tens of thousands of occupation children were born in West Germany as the result of sexual relationships between German women and foreign occupation soldiers. In the mid-fifties,....
236.	The Establishment of the National People’s Army (January 18, 1956) The GDR’s admission to the Warsaw Pact was the backdrop to the establishment of the National People’s....
237.	Walter Ulbricht: The Second Five-Year Plan and the Building Up of Socialism in the German Democratic Republic (1956) On the occasion of the Second Five-Year Plan of the GDR in 1956, SED party chairman Walter Ulbricht celebrated the successes of the state’s cultural policy. As evidence of that success, he pointed....
238.	"At the Border Movie Theaters: With Rubbish for Freedom!" Article from Blickpunkt (April 1956) Until the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961, it was fairly easy to cross the border in Berlin. Young East Germans took advantage of the situation and attended special daytime screenings of Western....
239.	The Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany: Report by the Commission on Questions Concerning Republikflucht (June 25, 1956) On the one hand, this detailed report by the SED Commission on Republikflucht articulated the official line of the state and the party – that West Germany was deliberately wooing away East....
240.	Federal Constitutional Court Verdict Banning the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Concluding Justification (August 17, 1956) On August 17, 1956, the Federal Constitutional Court issued a verdict banning the Communist Party of Germany. The verdict spelled an end to the proceedings against the KPD, which had begun five years....
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