East germany

Nikolai Tomsky’s granite Lenin monument, Leninplatz, East Berlin (via here)

East German border guards refusing to shake hands at Checkpoint Charlie.

In the summer of 1969 when this photograph was taken, the Television Tower was almost complete. (It was opened on 3rd October). The dome of Berlin Cathdedral can be seen, as well as the spire of St Mary's Chruch and, in the middle distance, the House of the Teachers and its Congress Hall also built in the 1960's. The photograph was taken from the roof of the Interhotel Berolina (built 1961-3, demolished 1996).

During the Cold War, escape attempts from East Germany were thoroughly reenacted

In the early nineteen-seventies, at the age of twenty-three, Ute Mahler began to photograph daily life in what was then East Germany.

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The interior of the Palast der Republik, the seat of DDR-Volkskammer, East Berlin, East Germany, 1979, photograph by Gerhard Kiesling.

With every great pop track from the 80s blasting through the Deutschland 83 soundtrack, the show comes alive with a youthful vibrant energy you won't find in any other spy drama.