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Trabi Safari

June 19, 2013June 18, 2020 Jonny Mardling 0 Comments 'checkpoint charlie', 'trabi safari', 'trabiworld', 'wall ride', 'wild east', berlin, ddr, dresden, gdr, trabant, trabi, zwickau

The Trabant was, according to Dan Neil in Time, one of the 50 worst cars of all time. And whilst

Das Museum in der Runden Ecke

January 28, 2013June 17, 2020 Bob Mardling 0 Comments 'Runde Ecke', ddr, gdr, Leipzig, museum, Staatssicherheit, Stasi, stasiland

Literal translation “The museum in the round corner”. The city of Leipzig in Saxony is universally regarded to have been

History Book Reviews

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall – Anna Funder

January 16, 2013June 17, 2020 Bob Mardling 0 Comments 'die wende', 'east berlin', 'east germany', ddr, gdr, ossi, ostalgie, Stasi

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the resultant re-unification of Germany, known to so many in