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Bürokratopoly ist ein vom DDR-Museum, gemeinsam mit Playing History herausgegebenes Spiel. Dabei handelt es sich um eine für den Schulunterricht aufbereitete Version eines Brettspiels, das 1983/84 in der DDR von dem Oppositionellen Martin Böttger für den Privatgebrauch entwickelt wurde, sich aber auch im politischen Untergrund verbreitete. Das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit bescheinigte dem Spiel einen „negativ-feindliche[n]“ Charakter und legte eine Stasi-Akte an.
My Road to Berlin, or Mein Weg nach Berlin, presents a Willy Brandt that confounds a present-day reader’s expectations. While the 1960 autobiography of the then-mayor of West Berlin links his career with the familiar story of democracy’s development in Germany, this work nevertheless retains an unexpected edge. In one surprising scene, the mayor denounces his East Berlin SED counterparts as a ›Communist foreign legion‹ whom ›the citizens of my city had decisively defeated‹ during the Second Berlin Crisis of 1958 (p. 17). In the book, Brandt comes off as a Cold Warrior of steely determination rather than a Brückenbauer bridging ideological divides. Far from being out of character, however, My Road to Berlin captures Brandt at a pivotal moment in his career, when he sought to offer himself to both West German voters and a global public as a viable alternative to Konrad Adenauer.