In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the
political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly
emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent
telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from
their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths
of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired
public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have
rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of
illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival
research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools
to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.
