Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character

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Enhanced with helpful links, visit ConversationsWithTyler.com. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I'm chatting with Katja Hoyard. She just published a new and very interesting book called Weimar, Life on the Edge of Catastrophe. She's well known for her history of East Germany, called Beyond the Wall, and a broader book on earlier German history called Blood and Iron, The Rise and Fall of the German Empire. Kakya. Welcome.

Thank you. Let me start with East Germany more generally. Why was it that communism Seems to have made the Pauls and Romanians more anti communist. But it made the East Germans overall more communist. Do you refer to the time afterwards or during the time that that the GDR was?

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