The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker

The blue jeans or Levis, once desperately desired by dissident youth as symbols of the West, were mass produced for the home market; rock and beat music, at first officially frowned upon and partially rejected, partially tolerated, was to a degree eventually incorporated and reproduced in a form of attempted inoculation against the more deadly strain of the capitalist virus.

... being under the influence of the 'class enemy', that mysterious and unseen force who more or less enjoyed the status of Devil in certain official GDR discourses.

[After the fall of the Wall] There was little point in having the formal freedom to take a holiday in Spain if one lacked even the means to tavel out of Saxony.

The introduction of the five-day working week (totalling 43,75 hours) in 1967 gave people more leisure time.

Rather than the ends justifying the means, the means continually subverted and ultimately destroyed the ends.