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Germany’s Thatcherite turn: how privatisation became a flashpoint in East Germany

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Treuhand state agency was founded to privatise East Germany's state-owned companies. Today, its legacy is sowing division between…

By Sumi Somaskanda

Germany’s Thatcherite turn: how privatisation became a flashpoint in East Germany

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View from Saxony: Why the far-right AfD is surging in eastern Germany

There is growing recognition that the dramatic upheavals east Germans suffered after reunification in 1990 have not been adequately…

By Sumi Somaskanda

View from Saxony: Why the far-right AfD is surging in eastern Germany

In early August, as campaigning for this week’s elections in the German state of Brandenburg intensified, a campaign poster…

By Sumi Somaskanda

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