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The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

New stories from the East German specialists behind this Cold War project

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Katja Hoyer
Sep 10, 2026
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East German agrarian engineer, Hellmut Naderer, with the direktor of the coffee collective Viet Duc, mid 1980s. Img: Naderer / Berliner Zeitung

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