Stasi files 73, 85–6, 104, 120, 155, 163
Stasiland 2, 19, 181
State Security Service, see Stasi
Students 23, 29, 137
subcultures 67, 90, 122, 139
surveillance xiii, 5, 94, 115, 163
‘Swords into ploughshares’ 98
teachers 48, 60–2, 65, 90, 94–5, 97, 101, 121, 139–40, 143, 154–6
teenagers 109, 118, 121–2, 125, 130, 133, 138, 146, 150
television 16–17, 83, 117, 121, 128, 135, 138, 149
Thälmann Pioneers 14–15
Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) 69
togetherness, sense of 59, 113
tourist visa 5, 39, 41–2, 46, 68–70, 81
travel 5, 39, 41–2, 46, 50, 54, 68–70, 79, 81, 88–9, 103, 106, 117, 126, 152, 165
Ulbricht, Walter 14, 155
unemployment 24, 57, 121, 148, 166–7, 173
universities 29, 31, 33, 35, 45, 48, 55, 62–3, 95–6, 134, 139
violence 74, 119, 139–40
Vitamin B 59
voting 1, 9–10, 32, 35, 51, 70, 93–4, 126, 128, 168
Wałęsa, Lech 7
wall woodpeckers 64–6
Wandlitz 178
‘welcome money’ (Begrüssungsgeld) 107
welfare 6, 11
Wende 1, 12, 17, 19, 23–5, 27, 37, 54, 56, 63–4, 73, 85–6, 91, 103, 107–10, 112, 120, 130–1, 148–9, 151, 154, 157–8, 161, 165
women 30, 33–5, 63, 100, 156, 166
Young Pioneers 14–15, 51, 94, 113, 116, 126, 152
Youth 14, 16, 18, 25, 48, 51, 94, 118, 123, 135
Yugoslavia 70–1, 182
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