“I asked my parents why a wall was so important”: Teaching about the GDR and Post-Reunification Germany
   

Eyewitness Videos

  
   
Historical Overview Victims and Perpetrators
Economic Upheaval SED Successors
Societal Upheaval Women and Religion
Right-wing Fears Changed Education
Stasi Legacy GDR Reflections
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Teaching Material

 
1. Sample Questions Accompanying the Eyewitness Reports
2. Sample Questions of General Knowledge Quiz
3. Midterm
4. Debate Topics
5. Topics for Final Research Paper
6. Additional Course Resources

 

These videos were recorded and produced by the Department of German and the Multimedia Learning Center at Northwestern University.

Translations and digitizations were made possible by a grant from the WCAS Hewlett Fund for Curricular Innovation and were accomplished by Kevin Teng, Franziska Lys, and Andrew Proksel.

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