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Along the Wall and Watchtowers - Oliver August

Along the Wall and Watchtowers

A Journey Down Germany's Divide

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Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2000 | New edition
Flamingo (Verlag)
978-0-00-653111-1 (ISBN)
CHF 13,95 inkl. MwSt
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A revealing portrait of reunified Germany in the form of a journey along the former Iron Curtain, from the Baltic Sea to the Czech border, this text is published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.
Marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a revealing portrait of the reunified Germany told in the form of an entertaining travelogue -- an 800-mile journey along the former Iron Curtain from the Baltic Sea to the Czech border. * When the Iron Curtain dissolved ten years ago, the faultline that divided West and East Germany also collapsed. But could the so-called 'death strip' be erased as easily as a pencil-mark on the map? * In his encounters with former border guards, ex-Stasi members turned insurance salesmen, decollectivized farmers, innkeepers, nudists, car mechanics, foresters and artists, the author reveals with a delightful lightness of touch the hopes, fears and regrets of both 'Wessis' and 'Ossis', and listens to the anxieties of those who feel 'colonized' by the West.
* He observes new nature reserves in the old borderlands; visits the unique village republic where for 22 years the inhabitants lived enclosed between two fences; watches the rebuilding of the Bismarck family castle; attends an international gathering of Trabant-owners; explores museums devoted to documenting former life along the border; travels across the dark and sinister Harz mountains which once harboured an underground Nazi concentration camp; and ends his journey in Hof, where minefields have been transformed into golf courses.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.8.2000
Zusatzinfo (2 maps)
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 197 mm
Gewicht 178 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Deutschland
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-00-653111-3 / 0006531113
ISBN-13 978-0-00-653111-1 / 9780006531111
Zustand Neuware
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