Research Materials
Helpful Books
- The Rise and Fall of the GDR, by Feiwel Kupferberg
- Stasi
, by John O. Koehler
- After the Wall
, by Jana Hensel
- Armageddon
, by Max Hastings
- Purgatory of Fools
, by Tatiana Metternich
- The Reader and Flights of Love
, by Bernard Schlink
- Simple Stories
, by Ingo Schulze
- Twelve Years
, by Joel Agee
- The Wall Jumper
, by Peter Schneider
- The File
, by Timothy Garton Ash
- Stasiland
, by Anna Funder
- The Dark Room
, by Rachel Seiffert
- Post War
, by Tony Judt
- The Man Outside
, by Wolfgang Borchert
- Nuremberg
, by William F. Buckley Jr
- Europe Central
, by William T. Vollman
- Requiem for a German Past
, by Jurgen Herbst
- Journey Through the Land of Eloquent Silence
, by Joseph Wechsberg
- Recollecting a Culture
, ed. by John P. Jacob
- Uprising
, by Arnulf Baring
- The Explosion;: The Uprising behind the Iron Curtain
, by Rainer Hildebrant
- Berlin
, by David Clay Large
- Night
, by Elie Wiesel
- Liberation
, by Joanna Scott
Excellent Films (thanks, Netflix!)