DDR-Alltag! – 20 Dinge, die heute kein Mensch mehr glauben würde | DDR Doku

The smell of two-stroke oil lingering in a street long after the Trabant had rounded the corner. The crackling of the television before the picture appeared. The clinking of glass bottles in a net, carried by a child who knows perfectly well they'll get money for them. Twenty things from everyday life in East Germany in the seventies and eighties—so commonplace that people stopped noticing them. And then they disappeared. The Trabant: Registered in October 1977, delivered in August 1988. Eleven years of waiting. For a car. The daycare center: Eighty percent of all East German toddlers were cared for—in West Germany, it was two percent. The minimum currency exchange: 25 West German marks per person per day, mandatory, one-to-one, starting in 1980. The Intershop: Photography forbidden, change sometimes given in chocolate, 380 branches, East German citizens could only use Forum checks. The care package from the West: it smelled of Fa soap, Jacobs coffee, and Sarotti chocolate—and between 1975 and 1977, these packages covered up to 25 percent of the GDR's total coffee consumption. The Stasi: 91,015 full-time employees, 189,000 informal collaborators, 111 kilometers of files. The Black Channel: 1,519 episodes, 30 years, a 5 percent viewership rating—95 percent changed the channel. And the Sandman: shortly before 7:30, every evening, since November 22, 1959. GDR Unveiled documents the hidden history of the German Democratic Republic—the places, people, and decisions that official GDR history kept silent about. GDR Unveiled documents the hidden history of the German Democratic Republic—the places, people, and decisions that official GDR history kept silent about. Contact: [email protected] © GDR Unveiled 2025 00:00 Introduction 01:26 #1 The Trabant 04:47 #2 Ketwurst & Grilletta 06:12 #3 The Pioneer Scarf 08:13 #4 The Prefabricated Building 10:24 #5 Vita Cola & Club-Cola 11:58 #6 AMIGA Records 13:33 #7 SERO & Recycling 15:25 #8 The Goldbroiler 17:30 #9 The West Package 19:37 #10 GDR Television & Valley of the Clueless 21:53 #11 The Youth Dedication Ceremony 24:24 #12 The Intershop 26:27 #13 Coffee Mix & Erich's Coronation 28:35 #14 The Dacha (Spanish Country House) 30:24 #15 Daycare Center & Company Kindergarten 32:48 #16 The Minimum Exchange 34:58 #17 Little Red Riding Hood Sparkling Wine 36:29 #18 The Stasi 39:27 #19 The Black Channel 41:44 #20 The Sandman 43:20 The Balance Sheet