Twenty years later, I sat in a drab apartment in Potsdam with a dissident couple, once again discussing Socialist Unity Party (SED) repression and German division. His anguished request caught me off guard and made me, someone who had become a fortunate outsider, angry at my own impotence. Walking across the ruined center of my birthplace Magdeburg, we were talking about the imprisonment of citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by the Berlin Wall. 'Can you help get me out?' a young East German implored on a gray summer day in 1964. Opposition (Political science)-Germany (East) 5. Germany (East)-Politics and government-1989-1990. German reunification question (1949-1990) 2. Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jarausch, Konrad Hugo. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press.

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