How to pronounce “east germany” in English

East Germany had pulled together everything they had in terms of mobile police, tanks.

East Germany had established a military zone behind the fortifications so the people living within 5 kilometers of the border, everyone in this photograph lived in what was called

there was still East Germany and Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.

part of East Germany in 1918.

We both lived in East Germany at that point of time.

And what East Germany did-- it cleared a strip of-- between on the narrowest point, it's about 90 feet

seized upon East Germany's border as inhumane.

And it was like the old East Germany, which was sort of the dark days of how not to run a sporting

Then one funny stuff about East Germany is, since we had no religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of travel, the only thing

Then there was also-- in most of East Germany you could receive western TV.

And what gave the people in East Germany is, when Soviet Union started to open up and Gorbachev started to engage in discussion

To compensate border residents for these hardships East Germany paid residents 15 percent salary bonuses.

Union it's different from East Germany in the olden days and it's part of the resiliency of the regime and how they've

And Weimar is this beautiful city that is in former East Germany.

and open for change, East Germany said no, we don't need to do that.

West Germany didn't have an embassy in East Germany, because West Germany didn't recognize East Germany as a state.

That was the last nail in the coffin of East Germany, kind of.

On a rare occasion the border was shown in East Germany it appears not as a prison wall but as action shots of handsome soldiers in combat, right, theyíre defending against

This is Saxony-Anhalt, once part of communist East Germany.

And in the meantime, in East Germany still very repressed and people were protesting, protesting.

In 1991, they started studying back pain in East Germany and West Germany, these two populations.

So there was no doubt in history that this is-- the fear of East Germany falling means the entire Russian empire falling in Europe.

Then in the 1950s and 52í, East Germany first decided to build the first extensive fence network.

Then in the 1960s, by the time East Germany built the Berlin Wall in 1961, a lethal border

And Germany is an interesting case because, at least in East Germany, we've had the Stasi, so the secret services, not so long ago, 30 years ago.

So when we went first to Hamburg then to Berlin to pass through Checkpoint Charlie to get permission to enter into East Germany

I think whoever talks about North Korea's spring compared to Arab spring or compared to Cuba or compared to East Germany, West Germany, all of that,

In the end, in one month 30,000 people alone left East Germany via East Berlin.

I lived a real nice-- you would here small-town USA-- this was small village, East Germany, sheltered life.

And if you wanted to describe the life in East Germany,

How can we, in a coercive brutal regime like East Germany, how can we tell what these people are actually thinking, what their motivations, to what extent are they being coerced and

So, for example, in 1952 East Germany builds the first fences and it deports in something it names action vermin, over 8,000 border residence who they deem unreliable for their

Well, East Germany certainly had no interest in admitting that the border was more vulnerable than it projected and West Germany had a policy of not publicizing crossings.

But I think about all the activists in East Germany struggling under a system that was strangling them, a system

people suddenly met in abandoned buildings in the center of Berlin, which had been owned by the socialist state of East Germany.

So this is a painting I made in 2012 across from the Stasi headquarters, so the former secret service of East Germany.

For your question about community project, committee art, for me being raised in East Germany in a socialistic system,

When they announced that they were going to do a talent ID scheme, I kid you not, there were newspapers that were comparing it to East Germany.

I thought it was interesting, a few years ago, it was revealed they had in decades past used prisoners in East Germany.

is two weeks-- no, actually two months before the Wall was built-- the head of state and party in East Germany, being asked whether they have any plans, and he, as

When he was walking exactly that barbed wire, and then when nobody was looking, jumped over, threw his rifle back to East Germany, and ran into a waiting car

And Westerners could actually step over the border, because there was about a yard or two of land that was belonging to East Germany.

Because East Germany was all about grey.

You were having a lot of freedom in your, whatever, 450 miles north, south, that East Germany was.

male #1: I have a, first question, did the formation of the wall and separation of the society change East Germany and West Germany in ways other than the political system?