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Hoyer’s Beyond the Wall: a just and dignified account of East Germany’s distinctive history
While Katja Hoyer is neither glassy-eyed nor nostalgic about the German Democratic Republic, her new book is a reminder that life in the GDR wasn’t all bleak.