LOS ANGELES, CA.- East German artifacts of art, culture and politics from The Wende Museum, the world’s largest Cold War visual archive, will be the subject of a major TASCHEN publication in 2012. The publication will mark The Wende Museum’s 10th Anniversary and offer an encyclopedic record of life in East Germany from 1949-1989. The Culver City, California, museum houses more than 60,000 objects from Communist-era Eastern Europe, including furniture and decor, paintings, sculptures, posters, flags and banners, signs, political propaganda, clothing, tapestries, textiles, books, scrapbooks, films, electronics, remnants of Checkpoint Charlie, and the longest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany. “The Wende collection is unparalleled and it is a great pleasure to give the collection the international awareness it deserves,” said Benedikt Taschen, the CEO and Founder of TASCHEN, and a member of The Wende’s