INTERVIEWS
Interviews are an important part of the IF DDR’s research. This page features an interview archive, which will grow continuously alongside the research projects of the IF DDR. The individual videos feature thematic excerpts from the interviews.
It is possible to sort the videos by topic or by person.

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Hans Watzek on the role and development of the Democratic Peasants’ Party (DBD)

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Hans Watzek on the collectivisation of agriculture in East Germany

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Hans Watzek on the objective of the 1945/46 land reform

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Hans Watzek on the Peasants’ Mutual Aid Association and Machine-Tractor Stations

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Hans Watzek recalls te post-war years and land reform in East Germany

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Hans Modrow on socialist democracy

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Hans Modrow on the “New Economic System of Planning and Management”

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Hans Modrow on the initiation of economic planning in East Germany

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann answers: “What could have been done better in the DDR’s health policy?”

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the political responsibility of the doctor

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann discusses the DDR’s approach to vaccinations

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John Green reflects on his work and the social struggles he reported on

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John Green describes increased political stringency in DDR television in the 1980s

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John Green describes his team’s production method

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John Green describes reporting on everyday life in West Germany

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John Green describes why and how he worked as a covert reporter

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John Green remembers DDR solidarity with Mozambique

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John Green recalls reporting on Portugal’s Carnation Revolution

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Wolfgang Herrmann on the historical parallels between Nicaragua and the DDR

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Wolfgang Herrmann remembers the arrival of the Red Army

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John Green describes reporting on Namibia’s liberation struggle

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John Green recounts reporting on the conflict in Ireland

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Victor Grossman on international students in the DDR

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Victor Grossman on the economic baseline of the German Democratic Republic

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Victor Grossman on the final years of the DDR

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on health protection in the workplace in the DDR

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the central elements of the DDR’s health care system

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John Green recounts beginning to work for DDR television

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John Green on the DDR’s international film traineeship

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Regina Klein recalls health care in the workplace

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Dr. Rüdiger Feltz on ensuring an adequate distribution of doctors in the DDR

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Dr. Rüdiger Feltz on the basics of prophylaxis in the DDR

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Dr. Rüdiger Feltz — “from patients to customers”

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Victor Grossman on internationalist festivals in the DDR

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Victor Grossman reflects on the integration of international groups in the DDR

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Victor Grossman recalls the Rosenberg case

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Victor Grossman recalls fleeing from US military persecution

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Victor Grossman on the Democratic German Report

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Victor Grossman on worldwide acts of solidarity

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John Green recounts how he came to study in the DDR

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Sigrun Lingel on shortcomings in the DDR’s solidarity

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Sigrun Lingel contrasts DDR solidarity and West German aid

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Sigrun Lingel on colonialism and the DDR’s self-perception

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Sigrun Lingel reflects on the DDR apartment buildings in Zanzibar

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Sigrun Lingel remembers schooling in Tanzania and Zanzibar

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the composition of the student body

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann recounts his post-war childhood

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the DDR’s health insurance system

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the emergence of the polyclinic in the DDR

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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the medical brain drain from the DDR

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John Green describes his childhood and early interest in film

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Victor Grossman on antifascist beginnings

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Victor Grossman on support for Angela Davis

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Victor Grossman on Allende’s legacy in the DDR
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