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stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world living to what extent will china be a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on al-jazeera. the full of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago came amidst sweeping changes that would end the cold war and see the downfall of authoritarian communist regimes across eastern europe the 3 decades on the pro-democracy optimism of those days has turned sour replaced by rising seas and a phobia and populist nationalism countries once held me one day i heard so what went wrong in the 1st of 2 special reports we've been to germany to find out.

the burly in wall was the most potent symbol of the division between east and west during the cold war. its demise towards the end of 1909 brought hope to millions not in the germany but throughout the world. to avoid inspired leaves a void that's here for us and not but 30 years on things haven't turned out quite as expected. fascism and racism have come back with a vengeance it seems that you know for a week at the tools were always there. people just didn't dare to express them the rise of germany's far right has been marked by hate crime and even politically motivated assassinations this is

a big challenge for democracy because germany is a place where we thought that never could happen again. india as a matter for the world war 2 germany like the continent of europe was divided by the victors between puppet dictatorships under the communist yoke and western leaning democracies. berland soon became the epicenter of the cold war also divided between the free world and communism. a city of intrigue and espionage in the heart of east germany then as the german democratic republic or g.d.r. left in the so-called german democratic republic was life in a dictatorship that means from the cradle to the grave life was organized and data mined by the state. as the harsh reality of life under the communists sank in

more and more east berlin is headed west to stop this exodus the east german dictatorship began constructing the burden wall. families were divided lives torn of all. east berlin became a prison but it didn't deter people from trying to escape and many were killed. osma director was one man he managed to escape east germany and become a west german citizen. incredibly he returned to east berlin and smuggled people out to the g.d. in the boot of his car if. you must know the mike the microphone the stick the pipe . he was risking his life without my limbs in your game if you thought that was affordable to. a lot you also heard. how much it was eventually caught and sentenced to 15 years but at least he survived to tell the tale many didn't.

so why did so many people feel it was worth taking the risk. while west germany mated ahead to become the industrial power survey europe. under policy leader erich honecker the dictatorship of the g.d. or became world leaders in something altogether more sinister mass surveillance. east germany's state security the story where the most insidious secret police in history. this is the stars he archive files were kept on everyone a colossal database to control the population in 989990 when we started our work there was a total of around 111 kilometers of file for photographs thousands of audio and

video files and a smaller left over amount of data project what was the study looking for i was looking for your personal expression to lead your life in a way that would ultimately confront the way the party wanted you to live east germany was a military state. as well as a quarter of a 1000000 russian troops there were whole familial east german soldiers. but it was the story that people feared most 1000 had about 91000. staffers official employees and about double the amount 180000 informants. in other words one in every shifty people were looking for dissenters who if cost were incarcerated in a network of prisons but for most people the entire country was a kind of prison. as time progressed the story develops new techniques to deal with troublemakers the strategy of demolition of personality this is the strategy of

that song was sort of a file in the way of killing people of getting to the bottom of who they were finding out every little detail about what the likes and dislikes a person was and their insecurities and attack them where they are in their personality could be hit and through that trying to destroy the person who wants such a person who's fear of being spoiled who organized pro-democracy protests in the mines you know she was arrested and taken to haunch and hides in the most infamous story prison in the heart of east berlin this. prison was a very special prison because it was isolation and prison and. no prisoner ever saw another prisoner never heard another prisoner never met another prisoner was totally still. and you've been alone in your cell yourself no really windows but. and

a very small gap for fresh air saw you said like in a cage. and the only contact you head was to the gator that's why they organized the whole prison as an isolation imprisonment because they have been very good psychologists and they knew a person who was held under conditions not able to meet other human beings not to speak with other numan beings never hear human voices then he will speak with the 1st human being he's able to speak with even if it is the. other methods of persuasion and punishment were less subtle. this is the basement section of hunching has been known as the u. boat where water torture was deployed. able to break lang's felled

the authorities expelled her from her homeland. on one level links fold was lucky she was able to keep her children but under a policy introduced by more gold hanukah education minister and wife of the east german dictator erik konica the state routinely took children from politically undesirable parents. incognito out of to you would see why such talent as this. slack was called while trying to escape with his pregnant wife and was jailed. when his wife gave birth the child was taken for a forced adoption. it took like 29 years to find his son. other parents have also tracked down the children but it's impossible to make a time when he often in high mentioned any last minute. nish to meet us as i do or take him on

a honda or bus make is contingent on your can in the clean slack continue searching on behalf of others his organization called stolen children has more than 1700 members. 30686 minutes in the middle of all of. the stolen children or perhaps the most poignant chapter in the 45 years story of the g.t. on. small wonder people greeted the fall of the berlin wall with euphoria.

but things didn't pan out quite as expected. while the hanukkah's escaped justice in south america on exorbitant state pensions. the vast majority of east germans were in for a nasty culture shock mentality it and also the best they could invest in any best spin on the orienteering and i may have a car and laws the only. ones there is of it on your own ports them. and i have always been on the sick these are quick to wonder what on. things began to fall to the oem within months the east german more course replaced by the west german more nearly 17000000 east germans had just 6 days to convert hard cash to lose it. unemployment sort and with it and rest.

assured it would send them mention in the. follow on feel all stored. food unsurprisingly many east germans headed west. highly qualified engineers or people who had to have a qualification medical doctors for example could simply by moving to the west without any further problems trickle their salary. and that led to an exodus of about 2000000 people. as a consequence even today east germany is littered with coast communities deserted villages and home of empty times. the former mining community of over a large city is typical. just 15 people and. the village was sold last year for $140000.00 euros. the new owner said he had

plans to turn the village into an inventor's community but the inhabitants are skeptical. that. i think. if. there is a feeling for it since reunification these places have simply being left to die. you know there is little evidence of the trillion or so euros that toward into the former g.d.r. from its western counterpart which was focused mostly on more to cities. each year all that your best in an urban area as about twice the return of each year or that you invest in a royer so if you would think about this from the perspective of the taxpayer that has the farm bill it is clearly a better investment to strengthen the cities then try to. develop something where

there is nothing left. but even the urban centers have problems boys for 100 miles south of the is an archetype an east german town made up of soviet era high rise blocks many of which now lie health empty. it's hard to believe it was once a boom time supplying the workforce for the nearby lignite mines it had the highest birth rate in the g.d.r. but 40 percent of its $70000.00 strong population have left since reunification. congregations of the towns church all but dried up. enough that end of the pollen can just leave. hours or and when i saw. you know steve you know when his replacement upon color dimension must mean the

hobbit of the best scene. in my head for venus the critters now spoken these are cunts for months on side that arises in a blink and on the harmed tired visor outdoors. and nearly the tufts more they're. opting for the storm in our stores and as those photos of. the still reverberating aftershocks of this earthquake have led to growing disillusionment with democracy android's ease and a savior imports of eastern germany although less than 20 percent of the population now live from the region accounts for more than 50 percent of recorded hate crimes and kind of the cut off. is that once the noyo or and that about us and i and i knew or didn't finish by a long time it had always been an interesting since reunification the east german

states of saxon into wrong giving birth to oppressor of neo nazi and xenophobia organizations such as patriotic europeans against the islamification of the west known as piggy to which was founded interest and in 2014. the group initiated what it called evening strolls weekly demonstrations interest and which have sometimes turned 5 and. it seems that stayed on for week at tools and systematic attitudes were always there. people just didn't dare to express that. you to have led to the situation in which people feel empowered to. say things that they otherwise 10 years ago would have never said in public. on the way i. feel ready

burgeoning for right received a major boost in the summer of 2015 when the refugee crisis began to affect your. uniquely among e.u. leaders german chancellor angela merkel took a humane stance roughly a 1000000 refugees into germany. because that's good off just the i live starts in. india there is. perhaps unsurprisingly this policy helped propel the fall run its policy alternatives to germany or 50 into the blunder stalled 2 years ago with a stunning 12.5 percent of the national verdict. last october in the region of the directions they did even better beyond halakhah party leader for the state of taronga took 23 percent. is the no wonder then you want to get by to vote on

thoughts but i'm still i'm not. fond of using terminology like a contentious german word for work rather than people as hitler did. he speak to. the thought and. i think i have a different opinion then mr. i think certainly the my creation price is. a potential danger for our country if we are looking for instance. to follow the core focus i think it's necessary that you might mention these things just to trigger a discussion herta is arguably the most controversial political figure in germany in decades and some of the even make comparisons with old hitler youth

a fascist is the thing when i think of him it's like wow how can people still vote for this party if you if you see this figure and they're lying and they ass threatening via their thoughts evil like it was the nazi time and that's a car honks is just one of many who see parallels emerging between the rise of the far right smile and what happened in the 1930 s. . east germany has struggled to come to terms with its past. this is billions memorial to the murdered jews of europe. in memory of the jewish victims of the holocaust built 60 years after the 2nd world war. 2 words from the memorials title holocaust

and she said no reference is made to germany or the 3rd reich and a mission which some people find curious. nonetheless it's an impressive structure covering some $4.00 acres just south of the brandenburg gate. called holocaust memorial that we haven't a memorial of shame but not in terms of the shame of our history but in terms of the shame that it exists it shouldn't be there he called for a revolution of our commemoration practices of $180.00 degrees which in our terms it's. nonsense because also you can try to round the holocaust. degrees it's true the holocaust. further belongs to the arts collective political beauty with its trademark camouflage face paint. the group which lampoons racists took issue with hookers comments even said hitler is not just black and white. it

is all he's not just evil basically philip and his colleagues decided to reconstruct a miniature whole course memorial in hookahs village to constantly remind the politician of what hitler did ok as house overlooks the memorial. we thought at our obligation is somehow not just to have more ears in the center like in berlin but also that we moreas have to go where it's urgent and indeed the situation is urgent in october 2019 the east german city of harlow was person to look after a double murder outside a synagogue the latest hate crime committed by near nazis eventually course the far right extremist awaits trial we were not surprised at all it was a howler there's a big summit of neo nazi activity. and there are

a lot of people and very radicalized people so. it was not right with just chucking. despite rising tensions and increasing anti semitism there was no police protection at the synagogue many observers have drawn a link between these racist attacks and if these rhetoric. accuse ations the party denies this is a technique by the other party's chests everything which is happening and you can say right wing yeah then they are trying to put as did to do to bring it in connection with the f.t. . in the time of course for harbor killings particularly worrying. for murder is just one of several east german politicians who've received death threats from for writing stream at the. time didn't.

as if you live here not quite brisk it comes and you are just more mallomars them done. with tensions rising in the time following a number of incidents involving refugees appealed for calm then he began to receive threatening emails. saying he should die in a familiar though the sender of the death threat was caught the police then released him citing freedom of expression. june 2900 lupe a prominent politician in the state of hesse. perceived as too pro refugee he was shot in the head by a neo nazi loot had also received death threats. according to germany's

foreign minister hike a mass there are 12000 dangerous near north seas in the country against this backdrop the f.t. goes from strength to strength and the after is the 2nd strongest part in the east and the 3rd strongest party on national level of all parties in germany what more do we need to see that our strategy is wrong the strategy is 100 percent appeasement policy and then we need something completely different. perhaps even more worrying is the fact that germany is in many ways a microcosm for the region. as we will discover in the next episode these problems are being repeated elsewhere in eastern europe and on a bigger scale. 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall whole regions have become abandoned got up on the ballot a billionth of

a 3rd if they don't tell a double step they will get out. more and that blair well what are the in their. fund rable minorities find themselves under attack from nationalist governments this is the kind of extremist racist sentiment that we didn't see in this country for many many years and perhaps most shocking of all many of those guilty of hate crimes during communism have continued to prosper they transform from the social democrats and they said now everything is ok we have democracy but in fact it was just the fake democracy. the hope and optimism that greeted the fall. the berlin wall a time when anything looks possible now seems like a lost opportunity as the continent veers into an uncertain and dangerous future.

the form of the burning inspired you to open dreams of peace and democracy but how many came to pass they transformed from communist the social democrats but it was a fake democracy people in power travels from the former eastern bloc to was quite post cold war optimism has succumbed to darker more thorough tarion realities the police called a cop or who brought a bomb to the launch and they were ready to detonate it beyond the wall part 2 on al jazeera when the news breaks today the current government has lost the trust of the people they can't do anything because the producers are against it when people are to be cut my throat working a represent the law for sure for opponents of rex it's drawing the conservatives outages iraq has teams on the ground it now hopes the meeting in paris will push

politicians to create a competent and credible government to bring new moon documentaries and life moves on air and online to be a child is to be innocent and carefree but it comes to an abrupt end with the burden of younger children. with a mother behind bars for siblings misspend for each other and decide whether to stick together. with the family in the hope of a chance across the us mexico border the other side of the witness documentary out is the. big stories generate thousands of headlines the media angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives thing has never really been believed. the rewards of even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism is so clear

and it sounds to me engineer this think that with the listening post on al-jazeera . this is al-jazeera. however i'm home ahead see an endo how with the al-jazeera news are coming up in the next 60 minutes president donald trump appears to back away from further military confrontation with iran but the man replacing the assassinated commander says he'll continue because some saw the money's work was probably the worst briefing i've seen at least on a military issue and members of congress criticized the white house for carrying

out the attack that killed the american unit commander. turkey and russia push for a cease fire in libya the e.u. warns of a.