Stalin's Unwanted Child

Download or read book Stalin's Unwanted Child written by Wilfried Loth and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Germany come to be divided during the Cold War? The renowned German historian Wilfired Loth has examined the archives of the Eastern side and comes to fascinating conclusions. He demonstrates that Stalin wanted neither a separate state on the soil of the Soviet Occupation Zone nor a socialist state in Germany at all. Instead, Stalin sought a joint administration of Germany by the victorious powers, a Germany along the lines of the Weimar Republic. The socialist separate state of the GDR is primarily the product of Walter Ulbricht's revolutionary zeal, which was able to unfold in the context of the Western walling-off policy.