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Long before Western consumer goods permeated through the Berlin Wall at the end of the Cold War, life in this postmodern city was already primed by capitalism. Not all Germans believed that the West’s post-industrial modes of production and consumption would lead to salvation, however. West German millionaire Hansheinz Porst ....

"believed that the [GDR's] socialist system, particularly its welfare system and its anti-fascist tradition, represented a worthy alternative to West German capitalism" (Markus Wolf, Man without a Face: The Memoirs of a Spymaster, 1997, 114.)