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Easter among East Germans

What the GDR did to Christian holidays

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Katja Hoyer
Apr 05, 2026
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Cropped version of a GDR postcard from 1959. Img: VEB Postkarten-Verlag, Berlin

I have visitors over from Germany this Easter, and it’s been great fun to show them around. We travelled the length and …

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