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Ever wondered what it must have been like growing up behind the Iron Curtain, on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall? Would your days have been haunted by the shadow of the omnipresent secret service, the Stasi, or was reality somewhat more mundane? In this humorous and touching memoir, Oliver Fritz takes us behind the myths, into a world of bottled fruit, corny commie jokes, socialist folk songs, sticky-taped plastic bags and Trabant cars. Where kids are counting the years to retirement, pensioners have no qualms breaking the law, holidays involve smuggling western newspapers from the Soviet...

For more than a generation after World War II, many Austrians insisted that Austria was a victim of Nazi aggression in 1938 and therefore bore no responsibility for German war crimes. During the past twenty years, this myth has been revised to include a more complex view of the past-one with both Austrian perpetrators and victims. This volume richly illustrates this view. Gerhard Weinberg places the role of Austrians within the larger story of World War II. Oliver Rathkolb analyzes the postwar trajectory in the politics of memory of the Anschluss of 1938.