Radio GDR - East Germany Podcast
72 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsRadio GDR. Life in the former East Germany holds an ongoing fascination for a lot of people. Join us as we learn more about the former East Germany.
Radio German Democratic Republic is a podcast designed to educate and inform on the life and times of East Germany. Radio GDR is hosted by Steven Minegar and John Paul Kleiner.
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How the Grey Disappeared from Greyland - Part 1 of my conversation with Herta Peter
March 23, 2024 21:50 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MBHello Radio GDR listeners! I am so pleased to bring you the first episode of two with my new friend Herta Peter. My favorite thing about doing this podcast is hearing stories from those of you who lived in the GDR. Your stories are always extremely compelling, and we welcome them with open arms. History deserves to be preserved, and Radio GDR has been here to do it. Herta was born in Halle in 1981. While she was only 8 when the wall fell, her memories of her childhood in the GDR to ...
Special Announcement - new website (radiogdrpodcast.com) and season 4 is coming!
October 14, 2023 13:07 - 1 minute - 1.83 MBHello everyone! Season 4 is coming! We also have a new domain this season - radiogdrpodcast.com. Please do visit us soon to tell us your GDR story! I'll be updating show notes across old episodes so you can the same great content at our new website. Season 4 is coming! Look forward to announcing more details soon. Our ability to bring you stories from behind the Berlin Wall is dependent on monthly donors like you. Visit us at https://www.radiogdrpodcast.com/p/support-the-podcast/ to cont...
Attila The Stockbroker
July 17, 2023 16:06 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBIn this episode John Paul Kleiner (GDR Objectified blog) speaks with Attila the Stockbroker, an English poet, musician and songwriter with roots in the punk movement and socialist politics. During his forty year career as independent artist, Attila has produced numerous albums and books and performed more than 3,800 shows including many in the GDR and, after unification, eastern Germany. In this conversation, Attila vividly recalls his visits to the East, the people whom he met there and a...
Taking Stock with Victor Grossman, Part II: Why The GDR Failed
April 08, 2023 15:09 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBIn 1952, a 24-year old American soldier defected to the Eastern Bloc in order to avoid a US Army disciplinary hearing and what he feared would be draconian punishment for his involvement in socialist and communist politics in the United States. This decision put his life on an entirely new trajectory, one that left him with a new name, Victor Grossman, and left him in the then young German Democratic Republic, a country that became his home for the remaining 37+ years of his existence. A com...
Berliners: Vesper Stamper's tale of twins divided by the Berlin Wall and thoughts on viewing the Cold War through historical fiction
March 05, 2023 13:41 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MBI am truly honored to be joined today by author and illustrator Vesper Stamper who in 2022 published Berliners, a historical fiction about two twin brothers, Rudi and Peter, who end up divided by their views of the GDR and then, quite literally, by the Berlin Wall. This is a must read, guys. Listen as we talk to Vesper about how the theme of "history rhymes" inspired this book, how the characters reckon with Judaism, race and their Nazi pasts and how each twin develops opposing views of the ...
Why The GDR Fascinates Me: Kris Hinz's Reflections on his Father's Time in the GDR and the Country's Legacy Today
January 15, 2023 15:58 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MBHello everyone, and welcome to yet another incredible episode of Radio GDR. We are on episode 3 of 3 of our listener interviews to round out season 3. I hope you have enjoyed hearing about fellow listeners' interest in the GDR as much as I have. In our final listener interview, I have the honor of speaking to Kris Hinz of Australia, who was adopted from Sri Lanka to a German dad who visited the GDR often to see family. Kris' memories of his father's trips and how they influenced his father'...
Why The GDR Fascinates Me: Fred Esposito on His Love for Radio GDR and Why Preserving History is Important
December 08, 2022 02:21 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MBWe are interviewing some of our most special listeners this season in gratitude for your amazing contributions to make season 3 of this podcast so special. We are especially grateful to the listeners who financially contributed to this season via our Patreon. One of our contributors, Fred Esposito, has gone above and beyond this season as our lone Interflug member at $35 a month. Thank you so much for your generosity, Fred, as you really made the behind the scenes work for the podcast that m...
Why The GDR Fascinates Me: Neese Family Adventures in Radebeul, Leipzig and Dresden
November 23, 2022 17:47 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBI have said this often, but I am so grateful to you all for your continued loyalty to the podcast this season. Most of you all don't know this, but I got this amazing gig when Shane Whaley interviewed me as a listener of the show back in 2020. I love the concept of interviewing our listeners so much that, to color the back half of season 3, I have interviewed 3 of you, the listeners, on why more than 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall the GDR still fascinates you. Many of yo...
Ralph Hänel, Part III - Opening the Memory Box: Ralph's Corner GDR Museum
October 23, 2022 09:25 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBHello, everyone, and welcome to our third installment of our interview with Ralph Hanel, Kung Fu Master, former Stasi prisoner and amazing storyteller. I am so glad you have enjoyed the first two installments, and Ralph and I sat down for a third interview to talk about the objects he has collected in recent years that remind him of his survival story. Today, Ralph tells us about his Stasi handcuffs, his GDR kung fu certificate, how special PanAm is in his life and about other objects that ...
Ralph Hänel, Part II - "Can I borrow your baby?", Stasi Handcuffs and the Book of Poison
September 29, 2022 00:17 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBWelcome to another incredible episode of Radio GDR. Judging by your extremely positive reaction, you thoroughly enjoyed part 1 of our three part interview with Ralph Hanel, Kung Fu Master, former stasi prisoner and an incredible survivor. Now it's time for part 2 - listen how Ralph confronts his past when he discovers how his ex-girlfriend oddly "borrowed" a baby in his name after they broke up, what stasi handcuffs did to his wrists when he was in prison, and how he became an actor and eve...
Ralph Hänel, Part I - My Father and the Stasi Lawyer
September 13, 2022 01:23 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBHello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Radio GDR. This is your host Steve Minegar, and the next three episodes will truly be a humbling and eye opening experience for all of us. On the Cold War Conversations podcast, our good friend Ian Sanders interviewed Ralph Hänel, Kung Fu Master, actor and just plain wonderful guy, about the lengths he went to learn martial arts behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany. In an attempt to leave for the west, Ralph was arrested and spent several...
Artists Take on The State! Experimental Art in Late East Germany, with Sara Blaylock
August 22, 2022 01:28 - 1 hour - 108 MBDid you know East German artists used their Stasi files as artwork after the fall of the Berlin wall? Ever heard of the Erfurt Women's Artists Group who stormed the Stasi Headquarters in their city? These were jaw-dropping facts I learned when I read Parallel Public - Experimential Art in Late East Germany by our guest today, Dr. Sara Blaylock, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Sara's book is a masterpiece and reveals that experimential artists in the...
The Things They've Seen - Reflections on WWII and the Cold War by German Eyewitnesses, with Daniel Burghard
August 04, 2022 01:43 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBI often speak about what a privilege it is to preserve the stories of the past, many of which are disappearing quickly, through this podcast. You our contributors and listeners are truly helping us to advance that mission. In today's episode of Radio GDR, I'm honored to be joined by teacher and author Daniel Burghard all the way from Berlin who with his book The Things They've Seen - Reflections on WWII and the Cold War by German Eyewitnesses fulfills our common mission as he captures the s...
Overlooked No More - Female Directors in East Germany's DEFA Films
July 13, 2022 01:48 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBThere is no shortage of recent articles regarding the too long overlooked subject of female directors. While many of these articles are specific to the women directing films today (Patty Jenkins, Kelly Reichardt, Kathryn Bigelow, etc.), there are many more that claim to be comprehensive overviews of the contributions made by women to the art of cinema. These articles are careful to remember female directors from the distant past (Lotte Reiniger, Alice Guy-Blaché) and the ones who boldly made...
Gay Spies and LGBT Activism in East Germany, with Samuel Clowes Huneke
June 28, 2022 23:40 - 1 hour - 95.7 MBGay spies and espionage….absolutely one of the most incredible topics you can study about the GDR. On today's episode of Radio GDR, we are going to dive into the topic of LGBT espionage, life and struggle for equality behind the Iron Curtain. We have the honor to be joined by Dr. Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University and author of the riveting book States of Liberation - Gay Men Between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. In the book, Huneke tra...
¡Venceremos! Chilean Bands and Socialist Solidarity at East Germany's Festival of Political Songs, with Jesse Freedman
June 16, 2022 01:43 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBVenceremos! We will overcome! This one word defined the socialist political movement of Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile and, after the military coup of 1973, rolled off the tongues of Chilean exiles and musical bands who found a new home in East Germany. As many of you know, I have long been interested in the GDR's international relations, particularly with Chile given that I studied abroad there in 2007. I was amazed to learn that Chilean refugees fled to the GDR after the 1973 milit...
Ned Richardson-Little on The Human Rights Dictatorship - Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany
June 02, 2022 00:17 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBFrom an outside perspective, it would seem that human rights would be an idea that the East German regime would have had great difficulty reconciling itself with. However, in this episode of the pod, Dr. Ned Richardson-Little, author of The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity, and Revolution in East Germany, explains how the ruling SED Party fostered the development of a concept of human rights which was compatible with the socialist regime’s domestic and international ai...
"A House Divided Cannot Stand" - Designing Chapman University's Berlin Wall Monument at Liberty Plaza with Richard Turner
May 18, 2022 22:23 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBThis episode seeks to answer a burning question - what does an artist do with a piece of the Berlin Wall? In our last episode, we interviewed Dr. Jim Doti, Professor and President Emeritus of Chapman University in Orange, California (chapman.edu), about how Chapman secured a piece of the Berlin Wall for the university's lovely campus. Today I am honored to be joined by Chapman's own Professor Emeritus Richard Turner, the artist who designed Liberty Plaza where Chapman's Berlin Wall is displ...
"Historical Memory" - How Dr. Jim Doti Brought the Berlin Wall to Chapman University
May 07, 2022 21:32 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBThere are many pieces of the Berlin Wall on display all around the world. How did universities, museums and other places secure these sections of what was once the most intimidating symbol of the Iron Curtain? In this episode of Radio GDR, I have the privilege of being joined by Dr. Jim Doti, Professor and President Emeritus of Chapman University in Orange, California (chapman.edu), to tell us how he secured for Chapman what is today the second largest piece of the Berlin Wall owned by an A...
Capitalism vs. Communism - Jeff Myers' "Crash Course" on Life in East Germany
April 29, 2022 01:09 - 48 minutes - 66 MBWe Radio GDR hosts all agree on this simple truth - our favorite interviews are of you the listeners and members of the Facebook group. Jeff Myers joined the group in January of 2022 and has proceeded to post some of the most captivating photos of his trip to the GDR in 1987. From pictures of old East Berlin to Trabants to an eerie "teaching assistant" Stasi officer observing a class, Jeff's pictures tell a story of a trip he's never forgotten. Today an Associate professor at Wake Tech Comm...
Taking Stock with Victor Grossman: The GDR's Achievements - Part I
April 12, 2022 23:25 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBIn 1952, a 24-year old American soldier defected to the Eastern Bloc in order to avoid a US Army disciplinary hearing and what he feared would be draconian punishment for his involvement in socialist and communist politics in the United States. This decision put his life on an entirely new trajectory, one that left him with a new name, Victor Grossman, and left him in the then young German Democratic Republic, a country that became his home for the remaining 37+ years of his existence. A com...
No Man's Land: Michael Califra's Crossings in Divided Berlin
March 29, 2022 00:04 - 56 minutes - 103 MBIn our first interview of season 3, we speak with Michael Califra, author of "No Man's Land," one of our favorite works of fiction about life in divided Berlin. Michael lived and worked in Germany, mostly in Berlin, from 1986 to 1998 where he crossed between East and West many times. When he first considered writing about Berlin, it was still divided. The challenge then was to render in fiction a situation more absurdly fictional than any he could imagine. When the Wall fell and Germany and...
Season 3 - The Gang is Back Together Again!
March 17, 2022 01:06 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBWelcome to Radio GDR Season 3! Join Steve Minegar, Shane Whaley, Anke Holst and John Paul Kleiner as we talk about what we’ve been up to, what we’re learning and what we look forward to sharing in this season. Our ability to bring you stories from behind the Berlin Wall is dependent on monthly donors like you. Visit us at https://www.eastgermanypodcast.com/p/support-the-podcast/ to contribute. For the price of a Berliner Pilsner, you can feel good you are contributing to preserve one of t...
Season 3 - The Gang Are Back Together Again!
March 17, 2022 01:06 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBWelcome to Radio GDR Season 3! Join Steve Minegar, Shane Whaley, Anke Holst and John Paul Kleiner as we talk about what we’ve been up to, what we’re learning and what we look forward to sharing in this season.
Season 3 Special Announcement (45)
February 16, 2022 12:42 - 6 minutes - 4.35 MBRadio GDR co-hosts, Steve and Shane share news of the upcoming Season 3 and how you can help us!
A Strange Exchange: Brown University Students on the Loose in East Germany
January 06, 2022 17:13 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this episode of Radio GDR our host John Paul Kleiner (gdrobjectified.wordpress.com) interviews Debby Pattiz about the unusual semester she spent in the GDR back in 1988 as a Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, USA) student at Wilhelm-Pieck Universität in Rostock.
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present with Ralph Hope
July 29, 2021 20:24 - 59 minutes - 41.6 MBWhat do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed overnight. This is the story of what they did next. Former FBI agent Ralph Hope uses pres...
Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall - with Tim Mohr
June 27, 2021 13:48 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThanks to Tim Mohr for taking time to speak with John Paul Kleiner (GDR Objectified blog) and Prof. Ed Larkey (University of Maryland - Baltimore County) about his book Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Tim's book is well worth a read and you don't have to be into punk music to enjoy it. Thats a wrap for season 2! Hopefully we will be back with season 3 after a few months break. Thanks for your support and in the meantime do not hesitate to get ...
Borderland Museum Eichsfeld - Touring the Inner German Border with Patrick Hoffmann
June 11, 2021 18:48 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBIn this episode of Radio GDR - the East Germany podcast, we are joined by Patrick Hoffmann, assistant director, pedagogue and historian at Borderland Museum Eichsfeld, one of the more than 20 museums along the former Inner German Border Founded in 1995, the museum sits at the border crossing point Duderstadt-Worbis, which is about 190 kilometers west of Leipzig on the border of Thuringia and Lower Saxony. The museum is comprised of the original buildings of the former border crossing poin...
Lives of East Germans - The "Authentic Spirit" of Adelheid Wedel (40)
May 31, 2021 13:36 - 48 minutes - 33.9 MBFrom being raised by a World War 2 veteran who spent time in a Soviet prison camp to having of view of the Berlin Wall from her apartment to meeting westerners like Celeste and her family who she finally visited in California after the wall fell, Adelheid has quite a story to tell!
More Ghosts of East Berlin - Celeste Barber's Fulbright Adventure in the GDR (39)
May 20, 2021 01:58 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBThis episode of Radio GDR, the East Germany podcast, lives up to Paul Harvey's famous expression, "and now you know the rest of the story." In episode 24, Shane Whaley interviewed Eric Friedman who, as a 10-year old boy in 1988, accompanied his mother Celeste Barber, a teacher in the English Department at Santa Barbara City College in California, and stepfather Frank McConnell on a Fulbright grant-sponsored tour as an English teacher at Humboldt University in East Berlin. Eric and Cele...
East German Football - The Turning Season: DDR-Oberliga Revisited with Michael Wagg (38)
May 09, 2021 17:57 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBA conversation with author Michael Wagg. In The Turning Season, he goes in search of hidden histories and footballing ghosts from before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He revisits the 14 clubs that made up the 1989 DDR-Oberliga, East Germany's top flight. From Aue in the Erzgebirge mountains to Rostock on the Baltic Sea, this quirky account of his whistle-stop tour is for fans who know that football clubs are the beating hearts of the places they play for. There are portraits of the lower ...
Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany (36)
May 02, 2021 13:28 - 51 minutes - 48.2 MBJohn Paul Kleiner chats with the author of Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany. Andrew Demshuk. Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amid catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of local communist officials who, with the help of scores of volunteers, constructed a palatial bowling all...
The Red Woodstock - Politics and Pop Music in East Germany Part 3
April 15, 2021 20:54 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBJohn Paul Kleiner and Dr Ed Larkey return to Radio GDR/The East Germany Podcast for part 3 in our series on East German Pop Music. In 1971, East German leader Ulbricht is out and is replaced by Erich Honecker Our experts discuss how music listening in East Germany evolved and changed in the 1970s including The Red Woodstock Festival of Political Song. Ed Larkey attended the festival and shares his observations with us. Includes clips of some of the music tracks mentioned. Check show not...
East Germany, Chile and DEFA’s “Hidden Films” with Dr. Claudia Sandberg (34)
April 07, 2021 01:16 - 48 minutes - 34 MBIn this episode of Radio GDR East Germany podcast, Steve Minegar speaks with Dr. Claudia Sandberg. a film scholar and filmmaker at the University of Melbourne in Australia and a colleague of Katrin Bahr. Born in the GDR and raised watching DEFA films, Claudia’s research focuses on migration and mobility in European and Latin American film, Cold War memory and archives. Part of her interest concerns Chile and Chileans in East German feature films and documentaries during the 1970s and 1980...
Interview with Helge Heidemayer, Director, Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial - Ep 37
March 19, 2021 21:27 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBOn today's episode of the East Germany Podcast, GDR Objectified's John Paul Kleiner and Shane Whaley chat with the Herr Helge Heidemayer, director of the Hohenschönhausen Memorial in Berlin. You will learn: 1) About Hohenschönhausen a) What was Hohenschönhausen? b) Who was incarcerated there? c) What was the prison’s place in the GDR justice system? And Much More!
Politics and Pop Music in East Germany Part 2 (33)
March 10, 2021 19:13 - 45 minutes - 42.5 MBIn this episode, our hosts return to look at the broad theme of pop and politics in East Germany. 'So we're looking at ways that East German authorities, the party, the free German youth organization struggled or worked to frame youth culture in a way that was appealing to East German, young people, but also delivered the desired ideological content. John Paul's thesis at the outset here would be that in the 1950s and early 60's the East German authorities, the SED's goal was to create or ...
Why Communist East Germany's Interflug was an airline like no other with Sebastian Schmitz
February 11, 2021 22:21 - 41 minutes - 38.8 MBToday we chat with the author of Interflug - East Germany's airline, Sebastian Schmitz. This is the first book published in English about Interflug. Don't worry though, you do not need to be an aviation nerd to enjoy this one! In this episode, we ask Sebastian your questions as we learn more about Interflug, her history, her planes, her employees and her passengers on the East Germany Podcast. And Much More Communist East Germany's Interflug was an airline like no other. Their route map ...
East Germany in Mozambique: Private Photographs of a Forgotten Time with Dr. Katrin Bahr
January 19, 2021 16:27 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBOn this episode of Radio GDR the East Germany Podcast, Steve Minegar explores the lives of East Germans who, in the name of international solidarity and cooperation with fellow socialist countries, worked on behalf of the GDR in Mozambique in the 1980's. He has the distinct pleasure of being joined by Dr. Katrin Bahr, Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Born in East Berlin, Katrin and her family spent time in Beira, Mozambique in the early 19...
Visiting Family Behind the Iron Curtain - Journeys to Görlitz, East Germany with Bill Blosen (30)
December 13, 2020 21:17 - 42 minutes - 30 MBI have always wondered what small-town life was like outside of Berlin in the GDR. In this episode of Radio GDR, Bill Blosen and I sit down to talk about his experiences traveling to Görlitz, a small medieval town on the East German-Polish border. Photos at www.radiogdr.com/30 He went there to visit family as a young man in the 1980s before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Bill and I both work in technology and recently got to talking about our respective language skills. When Bill said he...
My review of the new Amazon Explore Virtual Experience Tour - The infamous Berlin Wall: stories of the Death Strip and a divided city (29)
December 08, 2020 18:39 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBEast Germany Podcast Host Shane Whaley's Amazon Explore review of The infamous Berlin Wall: stories of the Death Strip and a divided city tour. Shane works in the tours and activity industry hosting a podcast for tour operators called Tourpreneur. He is currently reviewing Amazon Explore which is Amazon's foray into virtual Livestream experiences around the world and he brings you this report of the Berlin Wall Amazon Explore tour.
My brother spied on us for the Stasi and how I survived life in an East German Prison (28)
November 13, 2020 17:37 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBIn this episode, you will hear how Peter Keup's life was made a misery following his family's application for an exit visa. Peter discusses how his life was never to be the same again. How he was treated as a pariah by the East German state, which led to him trying to escape the GDR, getting captured, and spending time in an East German cell. He was later bought out by West Germany and following the fall of the Wall, he was to learn via his family's Stasi files that he was spied on by his...
A Journey Through the history of Rock and Pop Music of East Germany
October 22, 2020 23:28 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBIn this episode of the East Germany Podcast - Radio GDR we go on a journey of Rock and Pop Music of East Germany. Our good friend John-Paul Kleiner (GDR Objectified) is in the East Germany podcast host chair for this one. He is joined by Dr Edward Larkey, an expert on GDR music and author of Rotes Rockradio. John Paul turns his hand to DJ'ing as he plays some hand-picked tracks from the GDR. He has kindly put together a Spotify playlist of GDR Music to accompany this episode about the mu...
A Beginners Guide to East German Movies and DEFA. (126)
October 10, 2020 21:42 - 56 minutes - 39.4 MBThis episode is dedicated to our friend Neil Tooley who sadly passed away last week. In this episode of we explore the world of East German movies and DEFA, the studio that produced them. I know nothing about East German-made movies so in this episode we are joined by two East German Cinema buffs to find out more. I was delighted when Jeffrey Babcock reached out to me, pointing out that we had not covered an important element of life in East Germany - East German movies! We are not refe...
Why I am Fascinated by East Germany and East German Fashion (25)
October 02, 2020 21:17 - 33 minutes - 23.6 MBIn this episode of the East Germany Podcast we ask Christine the podcaster behind the East German Fashion History Podcast , why she is fascinated with East Germany and East German Fashion.
East Germany through the eyes of a 10 year old American boy (24)
September 12, 2020 12:54 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBIn 1988, a reluctant 10 year old American boy, Eric Friedman moved to East Berlin. His father Frank was granted a Fulbright grant to lecture at Humboldt University. Eric shares his experiences living in East Germany in his memoir The Ghosts of East Berlin, he shares some of those memories with us here on the East Germany Podcast Radio GDR
Why I Am Fascinated by East Germany With Anthony Russell (23)
August 28, 2020 21:14 - 39 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this episode of the East Germany Podcast, Shane Whaley is joined by Anthony Russell. Anthony shares with us what fascinates him about East Germany. Anthony was so fascinated by the GDR that he chose to live for a year in Rostock as part of his Germany degree. He also discusses his favorite books written about the GDR as well as TV shows and movies concerning East Germany.
Cold War Conversations Podcast Co-Host - Why I am Fascinated by the GDR.
August 13, 2020 19:48 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this episode of the East Germany Podcast, Shane Whaley is joined by Cold War Conversations Podcast Co-Host James Chilcott. James shares with us what fascinates him about East Germany. James tells us how he visited the Fulda Gap as a schoolboy and was photographed by East German Border Guards. He also discusses his favorite books written about the GDR as well as TV shows and movies concerning East Germany.
East Germany and Chile with Steve Minegar (21)
August 01, 2020 01:13 - 44 minutes - 31 MBIn this episode of the Radio GDR Podcast, host Shane Whaley kicks off season 2 of the East Germany podcast chatting with listener Steve Minegar about the relationship between East Germany and Chile. Part of the Why We Are Fascinated by East Germany series.
A quick update from Radio GDR - East Germany Podcast
May 25, 2020 18:09 - 5 minutes - 4.49 MBRadio GDR Co-host Shane explains why there have been no episodes of late and why you should not unsubscribe because more episodes are coming your way in the near future.