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Topic 3 Total - Coggle Diagram
Topic 3 Total
Stasi
general
eventually had info on 1/3 of all citizens, 6 million
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1/30 of population informers at some time, for greed, grudges, support
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FDJ
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in 1983, a million people went on summer camps with other doing community work
Propaganda
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celebrations of labour days, anniversaries and the deaths of communist martyrs
in the 1950, officials often complained that the crowds were sparse and the participants unenthusiastic
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Censorship
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in 1952 alone, 8 million books purged
the Leipzig Municipal Library removed 59,000 of its 69,000 stock
Social Welfare
housing
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in the 1950s, 30% of old homes had a toilet
between 1971-75, 400,000 new homes were built
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rents were cheap and subsidised by the state - often no more than 4% of income - often cited as the best thing about living in the GDR
education
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1946, gymnasiums - grammar schools - abolished
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eventually the workforce was overqualified and they reduced the number of uni places, 20% of people were overqualified for their work
healthcare
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however, they lacked equipment
one survey showed that one of the main hospitals of the GDR had 30% of equipment needed to perform successful heart surgery
hospital beds reduced by approx. 30,000
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Western Influences
immigration
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had to report on what they saw, especially military movements of the west
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Western Goods
west Germans regularly sent their eastern family and friends 'care packets' containing basics like flour and vegetables but also luxuries like chocolate and coffee
east German magazines included features on western lifestyles so readers followed western fashions and trends
Church
antagonism
after WW2, 15 million people protestant in a population of 17 million
1951, discrimination against religious youth groups began
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1954, Jugendweihe set up as an atheist indoctrination taken at 14, by 1969 90% of children were taking it
however a 1969 survey suggested that only 43% of under 14s had no religious belief, meaning many did
co-operation
in 1971, Bishop Schonherr said 'we want to be a church not alongside, not against, but a church within socialism'
run community projects to reach out to the 'undesirables' such as homeless, drug addicts
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1975, Oscar Brusewitz self-immolated to protest state suppression of the church
compromise
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allows church more media time, ability to build new churches in new industrial areas, and to import religious literature from the West
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during the 1980s, the stasi still infiltrated the church
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