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Learning History Through Stories About East Germany

Table 1:

Questions Right answer Students’ right answers at the beginning of the literary seminar (35 attendees of the seminar in total) Students’ right answers at the end of the literary seminar (35 attendees of the seminar in total)
Was the GDR founded in 1945? NO (1949) 25 33
Was East Berlin the capital of the GDR? YES 30 35
Was the GDR established in the Soviet zone? YES 31 35
Was Russian a compulsory foreign school language? YES 22 33
Was Russian one of the official languages in the GDR? NO 12 28
Did the construction of the Berlin Wall start in 1961? YES 24 34
Did the fall of the Berlin Wall begin in November1989? YES 22 35
Was the GDR a Member of the NATO? NO 9 29
Was the GDR a Member of the Warsaw Pact? YES 13 33
Was military service mandatory in the GDR? YES 30 35
Did Marshall plan help the GDR economically? NO 12 32
Could the GDR people travel freely all over the world? NO 25 35
Was the Soviet rouble the official currency in the GDR? NO 8 35
Could people enjoy free speech in the GDR? NO 8 33
Did the German reunification formally take place on 3 October 1990? YES 17 34
Is the 3 October a national day in Germany? YES 18 33
Was Konrad Adenauer the president of the GDR? NO 10 35
Was Erich Honecker a Member of the Bundestag after 1990? NO 16 30
Did Thomas Mann, a German writer and the Nobel prize winner in literature, live in the GDR? NO 14 4
Did the GDR army occupy Prague during the Prague Spring in 1968? NO 8 33
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