Established in East Berlin in 1946 as the official mouthpiece of the former German Democratic Republic,
Neues Deutschland sought to instill socialist zeal in a country and city divided by ideology and a wall during the heyday of Communism.
East View now offers access to the digital archive of
Neues Deutschland
, from 1946 to 2017, with new content added annually.
Neues Deutschland reported from the front lines of the Cold War with a socialist perspective that is virtually absent from today’s library e-content offerings.
Access firsthand reports from the Cold War’s epicenter — the Berlin Airlift, speeches by Kennedy (“Ich bin ein Berliner”) and Reagan (“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall!”), the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of Germany, and much more, all on the East View
Global Press Archive
®
platform.
