Question:
When did communism in Germany start and end? EASY 10 POINTS?
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
When did communism in Germany start and end? EASY 10 POINTS?
Twelve answers:
34th B.G. - USAAF
2009-03-15 15:16:46 UTC
Since before the First World War - it's still there although the Wall came down before you were born and the Country was reunified.

Communism does not work - never has - never will.

Germany is NOT Communist. Part of it - East Germany which was controlled by the Soviets post-WWII HAD a Communist government and economy. It does not work.

Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev worked together to bring down Communism in most of the World. North Korea is the only truly Communist State still existing. Not even China is truly Communist anymore.

Lights are on in the Capitol of North Korea for about one hour per day and no one gets enough to eat.



EDIT: Bob sets it out step by step from the end of WWII to the present. I suggest you read that and look at some of the sites he offers. I respectfully disagree with his comment that Communism in Germany began after the War.

Bozieu does a good job of analyzing the post-WWI to pre-WWII period vis a vis Communism.

As you may know, the Communists (although I don't know if they were actually known by that term) came out of Russia within the Czars Army fighting Germany. Those who had started the movement in Russia in the 10's, joined the Army deliberately to foment revolution amongst the masses within the troops. These folks didn't have shoes or a scrap of bread, yet the Royalty expected them to fight and die for the Czar. (Watch Doctor Zhivago - no sh!t)

Communism gradually drifted West and the Germans post-WWI found it very appealing, particularly as they had lost the War and the Versailles Treaty REALLY devastated the country.

Into this mix enter Adolf Hitler. Initially he used the Socialists and the Communists to assist him in overthrowing the Kaiser which took a good 15-20 years. The Brown Shirts were strongly Socialist, yet Hitler got rid of them early on.

Hitler hated the Commies almost as much as the Jews. They were routinely sent to Concentration Camps - forced into hard labor, etc. One point of view on this is that Hitler hated Russia so much having struggled through WWI in the trenches. When the Nazis burned the Reichstag - they blamed the Commies thus setting up the perfect reason for all 'Good Germans' to hate Communists.

The German words for Nazi-NSDAP- Is actually the National Socialist Worker's Party -if I have that right from memory.



Subsequent to the War (II) the Country of Germany and the City of Berlin were divided into four zones. Berlin was smack in the middle of East Germany. France, England, Soviet Union and United States. The Eastern portion of both the Country and the City was Soviet, the rest of us shared the West. At first, many people simply walked over to the West, either in Berlin or the Countryside. (We DID get the Airport (Templehof - very important.)

Eventually, a fence was put up with several checkpoints, the most famous of which was Checkpoint Charlie at the site of the Brandenburg Gate in the City of Berlin.

This fence ultimately became a formidable "Wall" which consisted of two thick walls of stone, two or three of wire, glass shards on top of the walls and ground sensors in the dead zones. There were guard towers every 20 FEET or so with strong spotlights and MANY guards, some in the towers, others on the ground with DOGS.

Still, people so wanted freedom that, at first, they climbed over (often getting shot) and later tunneled under (rarely successful).

Germany is NOT still Communist. It's certainly more Socialist than we are (or were, anyway) but the Germans now claim to have such a horror of ANYTHING that smacks of Naziism that they would never stand for it. They also like Freedom and Capitalism.



Take Bob and Bozieu.

Hope this helped.

Time for bed.
biskit_dog
2009-03-15 18:59:32 UTC
1949-1989

no more communist
bozieu
2009-03-15 16:22:06 UTC
I don't answer for the points.



I think you are speaking about communism after the ww1 war.

You do remember the russian revolution 1917 and Trotsky and Lenin tried to extand this revolution to the whole world.

They begin by Poland and the economy was so miserable in Germany after the war with a devaluation you need a wheelbarrow of Mark to go shopping and it change hour to the next one.

The kaiser was replaced by a the Weimar republic and there were strikes and gun fights for the power.

There were Communist called Spartakist there were socialist chief Liebknecht and during 2 years they faught with the right the future Nazi.

If you can find a tranlation of Les Corps Francs de la Baltique you will have a full description of this time.

When Hitler became canceller(Kantzler) no communist KAPUT!! 1933 with the fire on the Reichtag



After the second world war Germany was shared in 2 main parts

West Germany with from north to south an English area,an American area and a French area.

But the East Germany was ruled by Sowiet Union and they installed a governement which become worst that the Russ! They were a mixture of Trotskysme and Communism!!!!Imagine.

I have seen this criminal building the wall it do be during summer 1963

sure in the town they use ciment and bricks but to pass throught the wood they let cut the trees and dig a lane with bulldozers befor mounting the post and barbed wire.

The driver of the bull or tractors were working CHEST NACKED to be more visible for a better target if they try to jump at west!

And when a soldier was caught he was damned to death by hanging

at Brandebourg jail.

The justice minister at this time a whore named HILDA BENJAMIN

liked to see the hangman.



You have the explanation why I hate them I know the history of communism and never forget SOCIALISM by books and by experience.
2009-03-15 15:28:41 UTC
Germany has never been "communist." A "communist state" is in fact a contradiction in terms; a communist society is, by definition, a stateless society.



During the Cold War, East Germany, formally called the German Democratic Republic, was a socialist state in existence from 1949 to 1990.



East Germany was formed after WWII, when the Soviets, Americans, French, and British partitioned the country into different administrative zones. Relations between the west and the Soviet Union deteriorated rapidly after the war, and the Soviet occupation zone was broken off from West Germany and became East Germany - in effect, a Soviet satellite state with the government possessing little control over and no ability to make drastic changes to policy.



Premier Gorbachev allowed the so-called "Iron Curtain" to fall in the late 1980's, and East and West Germany were reunified in 1990.



No, Germany is not communist. The presently-prevailing system of political economy in Germany the "Social Market Economy" - a free market economy with a rock-solid currency and significant state intervention, such as subsidies to strategic industries, a quasi-state health care system, and stringent financial regulations. The German Social Market has successfully created a highly competitive but ethical capitalist economy, with consistently low rates of poverty, inflation, and unemployment. Additionally, every German citizen has access to a vast array of public welfare services, which (with a few notable exceptions) largely succeed in providing a "hand up," rather than a handout. For these reasons, the Social Market system is widely imitated, and it is seen by many to be the best system of political economy yet devised.
2009-03-15 15:15:12 UTC
Communism as a ideal began in Germany at the same time as the rest of the world and is still present today. As for E. Germany, when the Russians took over in 1945 after the end of WW2. The Berlin wall fell in 1986(? don't remember off the top of my head) and effectively ended the Commie influance in Germany.



Germany is a capitalistic society that understands the need for social leanings.
sirolli
2016-10-03 15:41:13 UTC
Communist Germany
2016-08-31 12:38:44 UTC
I think it depends
Karyn
2016-08-03 01:58:33 UTC
It's possible for sure
2015-08-18 12:42:44 UTC
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RE:

When did communism in Germany start and end? EASY 10 POINTS?

I need help about communism in Germany.

When did communism in Germany start and end?

What happen to the communism system?

Is Germany still communist, why or why not?

For the best answer you would receive ten points
Bob
2009-03-15 15:16:48 UTC
At the end of WW2 Germany was split up into 4 sectors controlled by the 4 victorious powers of WW2 (Britain, France, USA, and USSR).



The British, French and USA sectors were soon merged to form the Federal Republic of Germany (commonly known as West Germany), whilst the Soviet Sector became the German Democratic Republic (Note it was far from democratic despite its name) (more commonly known as East Germany).



Only the East(Soviet controlled sector) was ever Communist.



The historic German capital of Berlin, although in the East was a special case. Berlin itself was split into 4 sectors after the war. West Berlin was part of West Germany despite being completely surrounded by East Germany.



Life in East Germany compared to the west was very bad. People were very poor and goods were in short supply. For example, assuming you could afford a car, you had to wait years on a waiting list to get one. When you did it was a very basic car known as a Trabant.



By the 1960s the problem of people trying to escape East Germany became such a problem that the East German government decided built a massive wall through the middle of Berlin. They told the people of East Germany it was to protect them from an attack by the West.



Many people died trying to escape East Berlin, they were shot by East German soldiers guarding the wall.



The wall was re-enforced several times in the intervening 30 or so years. There were actually around 4 generations of wall. The final generation actually consisted of two walls one known as the "Hinterland wall" on the East German side and the other (what is commonly known as the Berlin Wall - around 3.5m high) on the West Berlin side.



Between the two walls there was a strip of land (known as "the death strip" or no man's land) upto half a mile wide. This was packed with various features to make crossing the border difficult (and spotting escapees easy) such as attack dogs given free run, trip wires connected to automatic weapons, watch towers, ditches, anti vehicle traps, flood lights.



The division of Germany was pretty indiscriminate, especially in Berlin, where families were separated and in some cases streets were divided into two by the wall.



The start of the fall of communism was in 1989. Communism had already fallen in a number of other East European states earlier that year and East Germans had found a new way to the west cutting through the former communist states of Eastern Europe. The East German government had no option other than to re-open the border in Berlin, this very quickly led to people flooding out of East Germany to the West and the fall of the East German government.



West and East Germany were reunited in October 1990.



EDIT: In response to "34th B.G. - USAAF":

1. I would point out that, when I talk about Communism coming after WWII, I'm actually talking about when there was a communist government in Germany. Whilst it is true there was communist sentiment in Germany prior to WW2, as far as I can tell, they did not hold power. (It isn't really correct to term Nazis as communists.)

2. Minor correction Checkpoint Charlie was at Friedrichstraße almost a mile away from the Brandenburg Gate (been there). However, both were undoubtedly provide a strong focus/symbol of the cold war and the post WW2 division of Europe. See rough map skteched out in Google maps below. It shows the approx route of the outer wall from the Brandenburg Gate (The Brandenburg gate itself, was actually in the middle of the Death Strip) to Checkpoint Charlie (a very short section of the wall). You may notice lots of bare patches of Earth, especially around Checkpoint Charlie. This is where land was cleared to make way for the border and hasn't been re-built on yet.

3. In terms of people who were killed. Perhaps the most famous is Peter Fechter. He was 18 when he died. He managed to get across the border and was climbing the wall on the Western side when he slipped. The guards shot him. He was left to bleed to death for over an hour in the death strip. Western soldiers, police and journalists could only look on as they too would have been shot had they climbed over the wall to rescue him.
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2016-04-03 11:56:05 UTC
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Communisum in East Germany started in 1949-1989. There is no more communisum in East Germany because the Berlin wall was tore down. The wall divided Germany to east and west Germany, but the wall was tore down so there is no more communisum.
2009-03-15 15:16:32 UTC
Communism started properly in approx 1932 . and turned into national socialism, then they got together and formed a sub division called Nazi party, all ended rather badly with WW2.


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