HUMA 3985 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Warsaw Pact, Berlin Wall, Americanization
12 May 2020
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Petzold is the most distinguished auter in germany. Recent historical events that are linked with his career and training, which are: the fall of the. Berlin wall, the reunification of the two germanys, the disappearance of the soviet union and the warsaw pact, and the integration of the european union. He lived in berlin during the time of all of these historical events, which he chose to do for political and cultural purposes. Petzold was born in hilden and largely grew up in haan, near germany"s industrial core. His father and mother came to west germany as political refugees from soviet-dominated east. Germany; his father was from saxony, and his mother was from the czech republic. He grew up in various transit spaces (bungalows, and other inexpensive semi disposable homes similar to trailer parks ). His parents became avowed anti-communists, which petzold was against. An estimated 14-16 million people migrated in central and eastern europe during the latter stages of.
