Parade of Trabants Celebrates Cold-War Classics and Their Dedicated Owners caranddriver.com/features/a6310…

The BRIXMIS Opel Senator Was the Ride of Real Secret Agents During the Cold War hagerty.co.uk/articles/autom…

The Dating Wall: Why A Long Reunified Germany Still Has So Few East-West Couples worldcrunch.com/culture-societ…

Jürgen Sparwasser: “For the GDR I was a hero, but I decided to escape to Frankfurt” quotidiano.net/esteri/intervi…

I have been looking for an East German film to test my students' expectations of what film in the GDR was like. I've settled on Apaches from 1973 - an East German Western!

The nicest end-of-term review from my East Germany students!

Watching 'Scrooged' from 1988 with Bill Murray and part of the Xmas TV spectacular his TV executive character produces involves a live segment of someone painting the Berlin Wall. Made me realise again: the Wall was just a fact of life back then.

Sad for Magdeburg, where I did all my PhD research. Sad also at the thought of what Far Right bigots and their supporters in the press and media will make of this.

Have A Nice Xmas, Everyone. See You in 2025!

Can Germany's Chemnitz reinvent itself through culture? p.dw.com/p/4ojdv?maca=e…

6. A man before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall

Postcards from 1970s Berlin.

Can anyone recommend a good example of metal music ftom the #GDR? I know there's a book about it, but I don't have immediate access to it. Thanks!

I have a new article in the latest edition of History Today - this time about murder in the #GDR!

Two to One screening @storyhouselive.bsky.social in Chester from 9 May: In the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, three close friends in East Germany hatch a plan to make a fortune when they find a bunker full of soon-to-be-worthless currency. bsky.app/profile/ddronl…