ANINTERNATIONALBESTSELLER-FromtheashesoftheSecondWorldWartothefalloftheBerlinWall,“anexpansiveandgeneroushistory“ofEastGermany(NewRepublic)In1990,acountrydisappeared.WhentheIronCurtainfell,EastGermanyceasedtobe.Foroverfortyyears,fromtheruinoftheSecondWorldWartothecuspofanewmillennium,theGermanDemocraticRepublicpresentedaradicallydifferentGermanythanwhathadcomebeforeandwhatexiststoday.Socialistsolidarity,secretpolice,centralplanning,barbedwire:thiswasaGermanyforgedonthefaultlinesofideologyandgeopolitics.InBeyondtheWall,acclaimedhistorianKatjaHoyersetsasidetheusualColdWarcaricaturesoftheGDRtoofferakaleidoscopicnewvisionofthisvanishedcountry,revealingtherichpolitical,social,andculturallandscapethatexistedamidoppressionandhardship.Drawingonavastarrayofnever-before-seeninterviewsanddocuments,thisisthedefinitivehistoryoftheotherGermany,beyondtheWall.
