Description: Taking advantage of documents never before available from the archives of the East German Communist Party and the Ministry for State Security, and drawing on interviews with, among others, legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German Politburo, this is the first book to examine the role of science and technology in the former GDR.
Brief description: Dieter Hoffmann is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
Review Quotes: I know of no other single source that unites so much archivally based research on GDR science. These essays deal a blow against over-simplification of the state-socialist achievement or lack thereof.--Charles S. Maier, Harvard University