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23 Jan, 5 tweets, 4 min read
#GDR #OTD 1990 – The long transition between the Fall of the Wall and the first competitive elections in East Germany continues (1)
#GDR #OTD 1990 Demo at Alexanderplatz by craftsmen (Handwerker) demanding market liberalization. (2)
#GDR #OTD 1990 – Bautzen prison inmate threaten to break out; they say they are unjustly imprisoned under East German border laws that are no longer valid (3)
#GDR #OTD 1990 – Border guards dismantling the Berlin Wall; pieces slated to be sold at auction to help with ongoing budget and foreign currency crisis. (4)
#GDR #OTD 1990 – Socialist Unity Party symbol being removed from Central Committee Bldg, East Berlin (5)

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10 Aug 20
As much as the Social Democrats are often seen as the political equals of the Christian Democrats in German politics (at least historically), the SPD has only had two elections with a higher percentage of the vote - 1972 and 1998.
In 1972, Willy Brandt led the SPD to its best results of the post-war with 45.8%. Brandt was able to expand from its Ruhr and northern urban base and even had directly elected seats in the CDU/CSU-dominated south.
By the 1980s, the SPD's core of support was clustered again on the Ruhr, industrial towns and cities in the northern parts of West Germany. Here the 1983 election where Hans-Jochen Vogel lost to the CDU under Helmut Kohl by 10%
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11 Jun 20
There is a meme circulating that Hitler de-funded the police so that the SA and other Nazi party paramilitaries could take over. This is false. The police embraced the Nazi takeover and paramilitaries took on the role of auxiliary police force in support of Nazi rule.
After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Hermann Goering was placed in charge of the police, but this was not resisted by rank and file. Police and Nazi paramilitaries merged together to form part of an integrated apparatus of security and oppression. From KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann:
In July 1933, the SA descended on the Berlin suburb of Köpenick to round up Social Democrats and Communists. Several dozen were killed and 70 were disappeared During the "Köpenick Week of Blood", police supported Nazi paramilitaries.
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8 May 20
How the German parties are marking #TagDerBefreiung on twitter: First off the CDU/CSU describing it neutrally as 75th anniversary of the end of the war and emphasizing a need to remember.
The SPD describing May 8th as #TagDerBefreiung and declaring "Never again Fascism." Specifically mentioning Nazi tyranny and genocide.
Die Linke is using #TagDerBefreiung to thank the allies for liberating Germany from the Nazi dictatorship and calling on democrats to continue the fight.
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4 Jan 20
For all of those who continue to have absorbed the legend of Rommel the "worthy adversary" from late-night History Channel documentaries: Erwin Rommel was a terrible person who facilitated genocide and wasn't actually involved in the plot against Hitler.
A brief thread on how the Rommel legend was purposefully crafted by Americans and West Germans in the post-war:
And here is a longer post on how Rommel's positive reputation is wholly unearned: tropicsofmeta.com/2017/07/20/the…
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8 Nov 19
What is the historically most significant November 9th in 20th century German history?
November 9, 1918 - Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the German Republic and Karl Liebknecht proclaims the Free Socialist Republic of Germany
November (8-)9, 1923 - Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff lead the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch in Munich
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7 Nov 19
#GDR #OTD 1957 – Production of Trabant P-50 begins at the VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke in Zwickau. (1)
The Trabant had a two-cylinder, two-stroke engine with only five moving parts and a body primarily created from Duroplast – a plastic strengthened with resin and fibers. (2)
3,096,099 Trabants were produced in Zwickau, East Germany between 1957 and 1991. (3)
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