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The Cold War is ancient history to young people now. They have no idea of the underlying issues that fueled the Cold War or how it evolved and affected people's lives. Current college and university students (aged 18-26) were between zero and six years old when the Berlin Wall came down, which is to say they did not live during the Cold War and have no direct understanding of what it was. It really is history to them, seemingly as distant as World War II or maybe even the French Revolution. The Cold War world, of mutually assured destruction, communism vs. capitalism, and Berlin on the front line divided by a wall, has been replaced by fears of terrorism, global warming, and financial crisis.

Supported by documents from archives in Moscow and Berlin, this article examines the SED's reaction to the XX party convention in 1956 and its long-term significance.

Auf der Grundlage einer ausgezeichneten Kenntnis des Forschungsstandes, einer peniblen Auswertung der Archive und etlicher selbstgeführter Interviews mit Zeitzeugen, beschreibt die Autorin, wie es Ulbricht gelang, der sowjetischen Führung die Genehmigung für den Mauerbau abzuringen. (Claus Baumgart)