Abstract
Thirty years after the fall of the Wall, how can we find an adequate angle to convey the best representations of what the GDR was like in France? How can we problematize this question in order to approach it in a more original way than just studying the Stasi? How can we get away from the narrative of the Erfolgsgeschichte of the Federal Republic and the Misserfolgsgeschichte of the GDR, which would be its counterpart? We propose several possibilities in order to open this debate, in the form of three guiding ideas, focusing on the actors, emphasizing the notion of a third way, and using the results of recent research on the GDR, because the history of the GDR is no longer written today as it was in the 1990s.