tv Reporter Deutsche Welle November 4, 2019 7:45am-8:00am CET
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what. does geissler mean anything to you. know just silence or do you want to ring the bell. mr silas door and my god and then what do you say you'll have to talk i can't even remember him. silk or follow any loan as they both have returned to the house in berlin where they once lived the ex neighbor still lives there but he's not home. for the 2 women find their way and. just look at this place through looks a lot less to silca than it does to me i don't think it's all that bad since. i think it's pretty grubby. it's not charming. we had our window at the very top almost over the corner. all.
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shy and that looks like someone lives there now. when she lived here as a young woman how life was anything but private from the stairwell across the courtyard the east german state security watched her through a kitchen window. the tree was much smaller then. i was even dizzy did you see the stars the people standing there. i didn't know until i read it. that we never would have guessed. that they were standing him. like they read about it invest all the file among the hundreds of papers are intercepted letters private mail official correspondence lots of informants reports. even the ground down below in a still cause apartment. so an april 30th 1980 7 am commenced observation at residents this light was on in the kitchen and
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the window was half open so after 15 minutes the light went out saber left the apartment alone and proceeded on foot toward the summary to address the subway station. noise at 7 pm the subject was not in the apartment a match stick wedged into the door was still in the place mentioned. this surveillance was then ended but then that all of all that and that. is a month had been my only someone was spying on my life and i had no idea. and they described me as a person from their point of view but it wasn't an especially friendly one. that left me with an unpleasant feeling. for years i wanted nothing to do with that i didn't even want to read it. as
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a start but i live with it. it's been my experience that you always get through better if you live with the circumstances. but not integrated into your life take it along and don't let it get to you and i. think. that's the only way for listing things. like why were the 2 young women being watched. so they had moved to east berlin from the countryside and found well paid jobs typist with noise and the official newspaper of the ruling socialist unity party ironic since they hardly toed the party line. i'm glad i don't have to work here anymore this is so. it's worth the money it's as if you're looking at another life this is had as if it almost had nothing to do with your own life now i mean to me it's distant i'm. a smart ass that was the 1st potter
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noster lift i'd seen in my life and the 1st time i jumped on i panicked about jumping off again just after because i thought it turned upside down at the top of the marketing head of the paper which still called itself socialist takes us around the building and down memory lane. 20th and there was also mizuki oh but she killed herself and are not caught up in partial impersonal. yeah she hired me for. and fired. using her maiden name shawl and the loan of a but decided to leave east germany they kept applying for exit visas if try flying back i doubt the credibility of the states now that i've had this linux parents of how little human rights are respected in east germany that. dear
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mr hanukah all these absurdities involved in processing an application for an extra piece or are giving me more and more doubts about the system why from word quickly got around to the newspaper. as expected coworkers so closely tied to the party line and the patients for what they saw as callous disloyalty. we had become invisible. nobody spoke to us anymore nobody greeted us we kept on working a little but we were treated like criminals dangerous criminals and that was pretty sad because we all got along very well before. we had not only worked together that partied together to have a. fire. eventually they were both fired from noise deutschland the future prospects were looking bad and not just professionally. desponding deliberately spawn same but still living in the noise and apartment the personnel department has
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told them to vacate the apartment as quickly as possible and look for work as the living space is urgently needed by the noise. and printer to it. in fact they threaten to forcibly evict us on it and we threaten to bring in a west german camera team for them so nothing happened. often passive the next. but this is this is it oh no end of horrors. that was here yeah that was here. but the system hit back and this official building. had to say yes it was really terrible here the 2 women were summoned here again and again for interrogation gnostic i was. god we got a bad physical feeling but no memory just a bad physical feeling like. we all i'm getting butterflies in my stomach yeah yes not good not good at all god. eventually the interrogation
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stopped. today this is the home this administration building for him would be ministers of course it was down there by the next seating area at least that's the feeling i have. was and that's what kind of feeling is that kind of not good. no not a good one not fun at all. not a good feeling why do you want to go there and you know i feel queasy somehow. and yes let's go there and i was like you have to return to the scene of the horror . but i feel really awful physically really awful i could just start crying or. think go ahead and. and. i think it was down men not at the same. thing i'm pretty sure here.
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i'm sure to. today they see the interrogations at the extreme the degrading. the way they greeted you was like yeah i can see right off that they're tramp's in such a nasty tone of voice. that all the manner of the 2 applicants was insolent demanding and very arrogant. in mark the islands. you always had this fear that you couldn't go marlon. because you'd be taken to prison that's how menacing it felt to us to look at all of us all important. so it was like watch out it's enough just across the street wrongly where everywhere such a massive travels with. their remember very well the names of the stasi offices. called. friends would you like to meet them again and i know. man and i have
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no. absolutely not. and of course i wouldn't be able to hide how much of despise them and when i despise someone i don't want to have anything to do with and. these events took place over 30 years ago. this one now the stasi records agency has provided access to their files. for the 1st time the 2 women have talked to the younger generation about why the rift that we thing to get out to be struck me. is doable i wanted out i didn't want anyone dictating that i live here even if it was socially equitable but we didn't want that and that's hainje brave enough to go ahead and act on it so what does this mean to sleaze to some of us most doesn't
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even know him for was common the fact that i couldn't get out that i could only go to a few countries that i was allowed to visit i just couldn't accept that i couldn't accept the way things were missed i mean and so i thought no i want out i want freedom little's even if i had. desire for freedom almost landed her in prison but she found work and protection in a church community. muses. about 9 months later i was through the application. because i married the pastor who lived in prague. but the pastor could only marry one of you right. then have your belief and then i wondered if there weren't other ways. i thought about marrying of all gary and citizen and emigrating from bank area. but then i realized that my
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nerves and my strength were totally shot. and we weren't living together anymore. so we couldn't support one another. i'm not sure if that was the reason but i just didn't have the strength. both of them withdrew their final occupation the start of the 18th is a bad a baby and unexpectedly got permission to leave for the west. as a pastor's wife zuko all fall was also allowed to go. to stand what we been through an experienced gets there somehow it all paid off the safety and. couldn't. get a bus my dream as a teenager was to see the world now i fulfilled it. where
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