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Patrick Major offers a fresh, people-centered narrative of life in the GDR from the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 to its dramatic fall in 1989. Drawing on film, literature, Stasi and police records, and personal testimonies, he explores how both state structures—what he labels “frontiers of power”—and daily cultural practices shaped East German society. The book chronicles themes of defection, resistance, propaganda, Ostpolitik's effects, and the human rights movement, culminating in the peaceful revolution and subsequent remembrance of the Wall.

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