In 1962, the Democratic German Report, an English-language journal based in the #DDR, published a map listing the countries in which former members of the Nazi party were working as ambassadors for the Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the end of the Third Reich’s reign of terror, the ‘old elites’ quickly re-emerged in the young Federal Republic. Functionaries of the Hitler regime were appointed to influential positions in the judiciary, universities, the army, and corporations. #eastgermany#westgermany@histodons
The Werner Seelenbinder Turm/ Tower at the site of the former Zentralstadion, Leipzig.
The home of RB Leipzig - "Germany's most hated club" - was built within the terraces of the old stadium, itself built by local people from the ruins of WWII.
Seelenbinder was an Olympic wrestler, anti-fascist and communist executed by the Nazis.
James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born #OTD, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from #HistoricalFiction to #ScienceFiction – he is one of the most important #Scottish writers of the #20thcentury
Regina Erich compares the original #German#translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A SCOTS QUAIR trilogy published in the #GDR between 1970 & 1986, with its more recent republication in a unified Germany
Open-air community swimming pool near Zittau, Sachsen. It's great that lots of these valuable community resources survived reunification. In the early days of the DDR, places like this were often built by hand by the local community - literally everyone doing what they could.
Disturbing story about Axel Springer, the German Murdoch, breathing down the next of B.I. This was Ben Mullin scoop, but I don't find it yet in The Times:
Business Insider story on's Harvard antagonist’s wife draws owner’s scrutiny https://wapo.st/3vyjdRI
"...'My suggestion. Nobel peace prize for #Trump,” one message reads. “And take it away from ibama [sic].” #BarackObama was given the Nobel peace prize in 2009..."