and. ultimately 60 minutes doubled. her 1st dance school in the jungle. her 1st climbing lesson and then in stores grand moment to run and join the around getting on her journey back to radio in our interactive dungeon tribute or up and around it and returns home. all of these people lost their lives at the berlin wall.

5th of february 1909. the stuff on t.v. is an on that must have been stefan han caught in chris's mother was informed that chris had been shot we were stunned it was inconceivable to us we were all so young 192021 we didn't think that this kind of thing was still possible in 1989 and 7 r.t. hostile to snitch maneuvers. because

it's business and me chris really like going to the scene i can imagine that when you're young and you're standing so close to the water that you're able to give your dreams a lot more room to wander. and i just i'm guessing that's a bit out so when he saw pictures of america or heard any kind of coverage about america then he always said he wanted to go there and see this incredibly vast country he started saying that when he was only 12 he felt that there was so much diversity over there which just wasn't the case in small confined east germany. he felt so i think he was 14 or 15 when he repeated this feeling and i told him that i didn't think he would be able to do that because he wouldn't be able to get

out of east germany if he said it out the clubs it and human set shocked him and he replied by the time i'm grown up everything may have changed he still hoped at that age that the system could change and that he'd have more freedom as an adult of oxnard as one but for firesign kind. all of us will send us in the him school fetishist i don't think he was aware that he was putting his life in danger at best he knew that it was dangerous because he could have been arrested as adults with us money enough to enter and when i wanted to since. the couple of hours alone alone didn't follow and for this one the body was so pumped with adrenaline that you weren't scared about scared to the extent that we considered the outcome that then actually occurred here because all the things. in conceive house are we just thought ok if they catch us they'll arrest us

and we'll be put in jail for a year which will all be quite harmless but neither the jail nor the story's outcome were harmless almost all fell into the system of those. thoughts and they are like an animal or them on the floor i spent 14 years living in the vicinity of the wall funnily enough i was unable to sleep although i was tired. from. the husbands sons who must have been half past 11 at night when i heard the shots. on the field there were lots of shots and it made me flinch but then i went back to. that and try to forget about it. don't think it's.

shitty think. the next day i heard the 1st news announcements but at the estimating they had all. this and was shocked and horrified as well but at that time i had no idea that my own son had been the victim. this is doing this on a quiet. 5th of february 1909 midnight a message from mr milkha prevention of an attack on the border to west berlin the border guards of regiment 33 fired 22 warning shots and shots on target. because one of 12. chris had been hit we stopped moving i was and he's going to be

provide him through the roof and we weren't trying to escape anymore at that moment i was hit by a bullet. d.m.o. he would be found in the middle of a lot so i wasn't really that aware of it sort of feels low but i felt that i'd been hit but i didn't feel any pain when on the phone. down and i was in on things and lie and then the border guards surrounded us with their weapons drawn the sun looking tires on and it gets old enough that. they threw us into a ditch until some cars arrived as well and in gone the whole. sort of hell to school. 6th of february 989415 am one of the injured men has died the actions taken by the border police have been evaluated as being proper and decisive

the names of the individuals who attempted to cross the border are to be struck from the hospital admissions register. of course i'd argue someone in prison always had a smile on his face he was vibrations and determined when he wanted to do something he wanted to do it he was very emotional and questioning. it what's in our market or and on and on and on and on and i felt he didn't just to put up with things the way they were i think i'd miss myths but doing so if we knew if he thought they should stop he spoke his mind and asked many questions or so on and on and on and on feel fungus trade.

because it was the door and chris was very restless and i never knew what he did with all his energy and he was a noisy baby and very spirited he had a real thirst for knowledge he was very demanding there was one instance in school where chris was in trouble because he'd beaten someone up i'm often national gets out of it because you know he did that quite a few times in years one and 2 before he went to the sports school what. because angleton is common i got a call so i went to the school district when i got there i told him that i didn't want him fighting with the boys he was that as he told me he had to do it on one of the boys was fat and wore thick glasses and i was at that at a concert ticket and everyone was laughing at him so that this boy was crying. that it would be and chris beat up the boys who were laughing and that he liked doing

that he was a wild child. point of the gun. our friendship began straight away and you. one. begun and that's when we started doing gymnastics together in school he was also from the johan is tall district. and me the one he was the only one who lived in the same district as me so we had the same grade school we got on well together boston for them. it was the equipment's was almost a not or we knew we'd go to boarding school together we were fans of dynamo berlin they had great journalists they were number one in east germany so that was

a goal for us and we were really proud of our finished its year on the martial arts and i me on. the ball when i remember the sports bags we got with the 1st badges saying dynamo on the bonnet. that was what i wanted because these are tough that are there when we were elton berlin with this bag and we thought that other people would see that and think that we were great gymnast's that or and that felons are. the way out that was our goal for 3 years we were serious about it being a top class gymnast could change your whole life. up and run by money off but some $20.00. 5 percent is on top and now has a car i remember him coming home at the weekends it was unbelievable his hands were so sore he had blisters and the skin was peeling off. he always took a bath and cut off the blistering skin we tried to patch him up at the weekends

funnily enough the children thought that was normal they didn't feel they were being put under too much pressure there were only a few times after he'd been shouted at to do it again that he put his foot down and said no i don't want you anymore it's no fun like this if we're looking at all kinds. of. interests because i made the decision to take chris out of the sports school because i knew he'd never become a world champion i told chris it was more likely that they'd break his back than that he'd get on to the podium souths was the best so i said he was too stubborn to

make it he didn't want to hear it but when i think i think it took 2 or 3 months and then he said to me fine i won't go there anymore but what will i do now. you know. with good for a trained waiter chris get friday i remember the 1st day of his internship and chris was standing in the office area that was the area between the kitchen then the guest room and crucial and. that's all in the name on through he stood there in his suit as if he'd been wearing it day

and night for years with guns and he was confident elegant and quick as he did his job. it was very impressive chris and i were both very happy about this job because in the days of east germany becoming a trained waiter was a privilege and guns guns the chanst and if talk to d.d. at sight and all with privy to get this as a mission it wasn't a highly regarded job but you had the chance to earn a lot of money even as a young person and vaio and x. all the time and. a close up call that an oddball of whites if you give us the old congress worked in a bar that had many visitors from the west there were tourists for them these german money wasn't worth much so they gave a lot of tips if you can get some in few minutes long. in many restaurants it was an advantage if you could win over guests to be your allies they were quite liberal

with the east german money that they exchanged $10.00 to $1.00 of them seemed so and the tallest. course can't offer as local new guns and that's how you could easily earn a few 100 marks a day. or 2 who call up more from the income. less cops whom object of your height but intimate and there were evenings when we went for a walk in berlin sometimes we'd walk through the central district and that always made us pensive because we could see the wall of wisconsin. and on compared to knock it was right there with chris coke very much about how he perceived the system out of the if you pull him out of the washboard he also talked about how he couldn't serve in the national people's army because he didn't want a political career void we had lots in common and occupied the minds on peyton and

he's on the on 4th us the 4 as i asked him what his plan was and i didn't want to get him to confess that he had plans to flee or anything like that he sort of stared into the distance and said i can't say that right now but things can't stay the same. thing he said that could be on my visit chris said the same thing to me once why don't we leave i told him why should we leave i have everything i need here i have a job i have a flat he shouted at me there must be more to life than that a small bank account a flat a job that's not enough help this i suppose or citizens to the rules. of research on. the and i had no real idea about how he felt i'd have kept a much closer eye on him had i known but i didn't. perhaps that city. 7th of february 989 police headquarters operation turner is being initiated to

monitor a car and get close environs as well as to prevent information getting through to the western press it is therefore been decided to summon giffords mother for the purpose of intimidation. so even spit at them coming months ryan 10 minutes later someone came in a relatively tall man in a blue uniform highly decorated he introduced himself i forget his rank but i think his surname was kruger so he told me without hesitation mrs gaffer i we would like to inform you that your son committed an attack on a military object and has died do you need a doctor if that's when everything changed then called this is what sucked then the others thought. i started screaming and really lost the plot but they got such a fright because they weren't expecting that reaction i kept screaming you murdered

him he was only 20 he didn't do anything i was so powerless i was completely in their hands there was nothing i could do but they did this to my child and all i could do was scream in silence i couldn't run through the streets screaming they'd have stuck me in a mental hospital straight away i think i had the sense of helplessness for a good 6 weeks always 6 o'clock it was the last we knew that cotton had been threatened we tried to support her and be there for her but we wanted to hear her story that she had terrible things to say about what had happened to her and how the authorities had treated her but the east german papers announced that there hadn't been an order to shoot so that nobody had been shot but we knew he'd been shot and still it was denied we immediately knew that the state wanted to shut us up and sweep this whole affair under the carpet they didn't want anybody to know that someone had been shot at the wall it doesn't i mean to be can believe does the madonna marshals have on us. 24th of february $989.00 police headquarters kibo

stossel chris careful his funeral must be prepared with the goal of preventing anybody from abusing the ceremony to commit provocative actions against the state leadership extensive security measures around current get right have not been able to prevent the leaking of conspiratorial information from going for social circle to western newspapers. or to the protest in all the mood so hard on them it's not what i thought it was a silent protest to have the courage and say we have to put a notice of his death in the papers it was denied that anybody had been shot down the system refused to acknowledge it so we did it and we went in there stuck together and it's the us consulate and you know it's paul we thought we could only say it was a tragic accident and we wanted to give the day it was

a small protest sign up to test us on our plans protest blat. and it was not all we knew that efforts had been made for the media to attend the funeral that was the small contribution we were able to make and that's when i talk . biden by the full. body on the stimulus would want to see while we were under constant surveillance at the funeral everywhere. officers were stationed in the cemetery side alleys and by the graves as east german citizens we knew that things like that went on but we've not been affected personally with for those of. us yet on the to the use that well the total the mods cognition you know we always

perceived it to be tragic. the system hammered into us that this was the border between 2 fundamentally different systems and the border was hostile so people who did what chris did could end up the way chris ended up all we well you know wouldn't. it was dreadful this slime on the whole and sets in with his own undies and possessed a presence was the final straw i knew i couldn't live in this place. it was a police state a dictatorship as in pretty tight does this not picked up well. 24th of february 1989 it is further ordered that the political damage must be contained by all available means use of an informer against the young adults and disciplining of chris cuffe roy's mother.

and sometimes i was at the police station for 6 or 7 hours i had lost all sense of time the only way i knew how much time had passed was from the clock on the town hall i couldn't even remember properly what they'd asked and what i'd said they just wouldn't stop talking to his kind of whom. you have all the more we don't for a long has got the gift we were brought in for questioning several times they came to my home to question me some more they followed me around for 3 weeks they came to the funeral and then always stood outside the shop but the 2 gentlemen sat inside there when i left the house in the morning they followed me on day 3 i started saying good morning to them. and they said good morning back to the. lot of the homes of me for they didn't try and hide it was very open it ultimately followed me home again. they followed me wherever i went like that i was just starting up the career ladder and had a leading position out of like water off playing and off and

a lot of pull it was made very clear to me that it didn't matter how the situation ended my career was over the only job i'd ever get in my life was a stagehand as you know with all. i know and the father in then i remember one trip i took in a tram it was packed full with boys with rucksacks and suitcases they were all very jolly there was something in each one of their faces that reminded me of chris i started crying i couldn't control myself i wanted to but i couldn't the whole tram went quiet as i stood there wondering what i was going to do to what extent the hold up with why i think it's time to leave then i couldn't explain to them the. chris was dead i was embarrassed i think or say it was that i wasn't

allowed to say in this state what had happened and that was very painful as i got out and felt numb. course but tart things mystery and i asked myself what i was doing in a country like that i went to the police station and got myself together and decided i will talk with us and that was the day they told me that their investigations were completed and that the state had acted properly and that i should never say again that he had been murdered. one of them added you yourself said chris was like a little wild horse what do you do with wild horses if they don't let you catch them i looked at him and said you just shoot them he nodded that's when i woke up and knew that i had to leave i couldn't breathe anymore i didn't want to live there any longer think of me and really i thought. she was up until then she didn't

know about her son's death a special commission informed her that her son committed an attack on a military object carrying get froyo would be questioned here for weeks. this entire you were going to. they're young they never experienced the wall they were born a lot later their parents often don't tell them much. many of them come from southern germany and sweden they just want to know about chris and me and about east germany what is it like to live in a dictatorship how do you behave. i think it's great that i'm allowed to do this and that i'm invited to tell my stories here and.

light up and he says sometimes i'm surprised myself that i've managed this it has worked i always remember chris's words about how there had to be more to life you can always make a fresh start and i know now that he was right you can make a fresh start with kindness. but.

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