Do any of you own anything made in East Germany?

[Hardrada]

I have these complete Stasi uniform I bought off of eBay but it is too small. I think Americans are a lot bigger than people of other countries since just about any item of military clothing I have picked up will not fit, from spiked helmets to great coats!

[Hardrada]

1. Ok so nobody else buys such strange things.

Or hunts down oddities on eBay. I don't eat at the Olive Garden though.

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. I used to own an RFT Funkwerk Leipzig tube condenser mic.

It used a large diaphram Neumann element and it had it's power supply and preamp built into it. Large, it had a wonderful sound. Sold it on the 'bay. I don't have anything else from the GDR, so maybe this post is OT.

[Hardrada]

3. You know, they had some great cameras in the DDR too.

Zeiss-Ikon , I think.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Yes. I've heard of them.

I have Minox and some old Pentax cameras, but nothing nice like that. It's just as well, as I'm no photog. I do have some W German tubes and a W German tube PA amp that I am modifying but that's not a big deal. What cars were produced in the DDR?

BTW, I found a pix of the type of mic I had.

[Hardrada]

8. The one East German car I recall is the famous Trabant.

I wish I had a picture. In fact, I wish I had one. Might save some on fuel costs.

[Gold Metal Flake]

11. Google!

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&safe=off&q=Trabant&btnG=Search

Cute! But it's a two cycle (koff).


Tons of pix on the web. People are doing crazy things with them!



Build yer own!

[Hardrada]

15. I'll have to build my own since I can't find any for sale.

Even on eBay.

[Reverend_Smitty]

24. I suppose it shouldn't be too hard...

those things were practically made out of plastic and cardboard

[China_cat]

26. My husband had a Practika that was great.

Unfortunately, it got ripped off.

[Hardrada]

37. I think I've seen those but it's been awhile!

Wonder if he could turn up one on eBay. Maybe even the same one!!!

[Aristus]

5. I own a complete camouflage combat uniform for an East German

tank officer. It's pretty cool.

[Hardrada]

6. Get a few more of us and we could start our own People's

Republic!! I'm glad I'm not the only DDR uniform fan here!

[Aristus]

9. I hate to be a noodge here, Hardrada, but

your sig line should read: "The long, sobbing violins of Autumn..."

[Hardrada]

14. Even better! Took awhile for anyone (me included) to catch

that! Now, what is the significance of this quote?

[Aristus]

19. The first half of the line was broadcast by the BBC in the Spring of 1944 as an alert to

the French Resistance that the date for the Allied landings in Normandy had been set. The second half was broadcast to announce that the landings would begin in 24 hours.


History major in college... B-)

[Hardrada]

20. And has this any relevance to our present circumstances?

[TheMightyFavog]

17. Has anyone ever played DDR while wearing a uniform from the DDR?

[Hardrada]

21. Noot yet. Cool poster! Good Old Vladimir Ilyich

[Little Wing]

7. Only the Communist voice inside my head

[Hardrada]

10. What does it tell you to do?

[Little Wing]

12. Go West

[Strawman]

13. Just this one item someone gave me inside an East German prison

[Hardrada]

16. Looks a promotion item for some weird flick!

Not sure if made in the DDR though.

[ironflange]

18. A harmonica

It's a "Weltmeister," a big high-end tremolo harpoon. Mom and Dad bought it on a trip to the USSR in 1969, I guess it's high time I learned how to play the damn thing.

[Hardrada]

22. Never too late to learn.

I can just visualize it! Do you have the original packaging?

[ironflange]

28. I dunno about the box

The instrument itself is beautiful, shiny chrome with blue trim.

[JVS]

23. Growing up I had a set of a couple dozen small wooden houses with serveral churches

some had blue roofs, some orange. A nice set.

[Hardrada]

25. Where were they made?

Dresden? Berlin? Magdeburg? Just curious.

[JVS]

29. They just said East Germany

Mom got them when she was visiting the DDR, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia back in 1967

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. Yes, I have a couple things - I had an East German stay the night last October

and he gave me a couple gifts.

Though I suppose they are just technically German, since they were made after The Wall came down.

I asked the guy, who was about 5 or 6 when the The Wall came down, what he remembers changing the most. I found his answer very interesting: he said that what he remembers most is the toys became more colorful.

[Hardrada]

31. We might be visiting that part of Germany this summer

depending on what Der Shrub does in the betweentime. That is an interesting point about the more colorful toys. More colorful buildings too from the pics I've seen.

[AllegroRondo]

30. I bought a chess board in East Berlin, in 1986

small, wood, not very fancy, but pretty neat.

[Hardrada]

32. That's a good souvenir to have.

I forgot to say I got some kind of tour guide to Luther's Wittenberg with some books I bought from a pastor. So I have one book besides that uniform I mentioned above.

[AllegroRondo]

33. I also have a newspaper from West Berlin

we happened to be there the day Rudolph Hess died. So I bought a paper just for the headline.

Dont know what the East Berlin paper said....

[Critters2]

34. A good many of my ancestors. nt

[Anarcho-Socialist]

35. No I don't

I find the look of the Trabant to be appealling, but practical they aren't.

There has been quite a nostalgia about the DDR in the last five years, especially in high-unemployment eastern Germany. However I wouldn't have wanted to live under the DDR system.

[Hardrada]

36. Some people put a Fiat engine in them instead of the

lawn mower engine it had or whatever it was. It was a real economy car though.

[Robeson]

38. Can't wait till MissHoneychurch jumps in on this one....

....since she is from the former East Germany...