Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer Groundswell Speaker 2024 Welcome to the amazing world

Welcome to the amazing world of flags

the national treasure

Steve Backshall was nine years old the first time he saw a shark

brave and propulsive

and the Anunnaki will soon discover that no one can escape the sins of the past

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer Groundswell Speaker 2024 Welcome to the amazing worldIn 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. In