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the thing about the stars in the sky is you can gaze at them whether you're behind a wall or not. much i want to score my grandmother had a telescope we don't get saturn or jupiter and it's moons he was so common to tycoon. you know he and i was born in january 1901 a year after the wall fell. and. this happened because it's

incredible to think that my parents who seem so ordinary to me grew up in a dictatorship a place where tanks would sometimes roll through the streets that are just awful voice and. cup if you can my what they've used to be a law i knew that it had been built and that my mother and my grandparents were trapped behind it that was the reality i grew up with guns know a lot of it. i .

brother and sister fans and antonia head and and their grandfather he grew up here in ben i washed asset which marks the border between east and west germany he learned this an early age how cruel that border was just coming in and after my own theater i remember you telling us that you once looked out of the window onto the cemetery and saw someone attempting to escape through that yeah after aswell yeah that's right. but that was long before the wall was built but i was 1953 during the east german uprising. 3 saw a man crawling on all fours between the gravestones over there he was approaching the church grounds and our house was already quite close but we can see also that he was surrounded by armed guards which i was 13. it was

a terrible thing to see he was a lost cause and there was nothing we could do we couldn't warn him we hid under the bed clothes pulled the blankets over our heads and then we heard the gunfire. about it couldn't you have yelled from the window you know you have you have now and then what. he'd already been spotted. there was no point in warning him to come here but. he had been a movie you'd have distracted the guards imitated birds or something orders them immediately. it was. your kid to plant lived in the eastern half of the city his home and the church where his father was pasto were demolished when the berlin wall was built then i watched the 2 was also demolished whether love of his life grew up she became a hugely popular politician in the pastry unification years. which was grandma's window this one those 2 right on the left of the left window the left one.

always a looked on the pavement so if she stuck her hand out of the window she always said her head was in the western or backside was in the east her backside in the east you know her backside i'm quoting her you have here and you'd knock on the window and knock on the window on my way to choir practice. i thought it was a it's funny to think that was right here the floor was probably here and this is where grandma would show her bed about her desk right here you know you. regain and you have to depend to a married for 35 years until her death in 2001961 the battle in will was built literally on the doorstep. of the stars about in the last. i went out the

door under brown hours transfer to buy a newspaper does it with the staff and i saw that barbed wire had been laid out on the east side of the street when for you. and there were police armed with machine guns. it didn't mean much to the rest of the world but it meant everything to a married couple who lived on one side and wanted to have breakfast with their parents on the other side 1st avoidant your grandparents who lived in the west and wanted to take their grandchild for a walk and home builder and park and all the sudden you couldn't go from one street to another from one side to the other with. the wool divided and germany for 28 years. the wall is now in memory the city one again. studies humanities and what's part time in the planetarium antonius studies physics they live just a stone's throw from the war memorial site and from where their grandparents once

lived. i know where it's vices i know it's where my grandparents lived and nowadays you see tourists milling around here all the time and i love it but of course it's also just where france lives and where i go to celebrate new year's or watch a football match or whatever but what i will breathing in history sounds a bit over the top but it's everywhere when you go out partying and you cross back and forth any number of times without thinking anything of it. regain a head would no doubt have enjoyed that had grandchildren live so near to where she grew up she joined the social democratic party in 1909 gaining a reputation for plain speaking to successful reunification of the 2 geminis was always one of her key concerns just exactly that's why i say we need to participate in whatever way we can get involved you vote for for i was aware from the outset that the moment she entered politics greg you know would never let go and politics

would never let her go she gave it her all. and not just for self musician or for the people she'd suddenly been granted responsibility for it's an unfortunate sign off of the book i would have loved to have spent a few days with her as the person i am now discussing ideas because well we're going to. 30 years after the fall of the bell in wall antonia in france feel that differences between east and west in germany still linger they're not sure if germany has going together or apart. with sending them on a journey across eastern germany to find out visiting places where people are venting dissatisfaction and disappointment. come on let's have a song. i

. just i. guess i have a car. first. all right. no network. there's not exactly reliable internet around here but. much of the former east germany is struggling in the communist era the country was rundown and on the verge of bankruptcy since $989.00 nearly 25 percent of the population has moved away. wow. there's little industry left here.

antonia and funds are critical of coal mining like many young people today they're worried about the environment but in eastern germany coal is still important lignite brown coal mining is a major employer and an integrity part of the region's identity zuko but slough has spent her entire working life in a coal mine i feel as safe as i'm about to start up the excavator 1st i'll give a warning and then i'll set the excavator in motion. and then i can dig all that up you see the cable it's connected to the mast in the mast lifts the arm it's perfectly safe which is wobbles a bit all right so i'll sit down. wow. is it has been operating an excavator for 35 years shifting up to 3 and a half 1000 tonnes of lignite per hour but germany is aiming to shut down all of

its coal fired power plants by 2038 reunification hit this part of eastern germany hard now it's facing yet another copy for. action. but or is it a dish but how do you feel knowing that it won't be long before these coal mines are closed down through the plane is that this is too much. it's a very emotional issue for us when. we feel we're being vilified by the police were made out to be the bad guys we're destroying the environment and we're responsible for climate change. in my opinion that's just rubbish. that's what the mining industry does a lot to protect the environment but nobody talks about that of course coal mining has an environmental impact but the industry makes up for it in the total look again at our council but can't you understand people's concerns why they're making these demands. of course they don't think miners are terrible people they think

they're perfectly normal nice people who are doing their job as best they can but they want to protect the environment and bring about change so i look i've got nothing against environmental protection but not in this radical well. 8000 people work in the lignite strip mines the coal industry is by far the biggest employer in the region wide scale unemployment is a looming physical but stuff it brings back painful memories of what happened after 9 $189.00 after reunification. it's a very difficult subject for me i've had to say goodbye to friends to colleagues who are also friends it's a very emotional thing you've lost your job i've kept mine it's hard for both sides . this is for because i can place so were you just lucky. your job safe because it's killed. no one's job was safe

one. you must have been afraid too of course. how much transformation can reach and withstand. a few kilometers from the mine moped enthusiastic gathered in the village of tower this is whether simpson s $51.00. pads were manufactured back him up was then communist east germany. took us which ones are yours. when they were younger france and antonia also rode my pads like these. you have the clinging to the noise the smell it's all still there 30 years after the fall of

the wall mopeds is still really big thing here again it's young kids today like my son 14 or 15 year olds and think tank you're with them all the time it's great to talk about it and forced on to still so let's go to this although it's a symbol of values the good old days great stuff the colors all. right let's take this one for a spin so you can sit on it while you push out while you can i go follow the met is glad to see the village taking pride in its heritage but in recent decades many locals left to find work in the west the area has rebounded somewhat but when the last mines closed they could be another exodus this notion of you know it but there's talk again about structural change once the older generation don't feel affected they think they don't have long left anyway above us

mom to your money but what about the young generation. in this nation they'll move away if the regional gov. don't manage to attract industry here. say it's almost too late for that. bill to speak. hollow. dr i thought this was you and all of your. antonia and friends of visiting katherine cloud. is a retired lawyer oh. yeah how old were you when the wall fell to the math i was born in 47. so early forties projects i was

36 when i started studying. for the wall fell yes and in 1990 i ended my studies which were under the east german system. well it was as if my entire world had collapsed. ok so then what oh i see you've been studying a completely different legal system and while that's crazy how infuriating so you had just finished your studies and the wall fell so it had all been a waste of time a total waste of time every weekend a colleague and i went to horrible to university in berlin to attend and listen ours on west german law those were hard times the the a muslim heart. it must have felt very unfair your all what do you think now i mean as a lawyer when you look back on what happened then. it was unfair a new system was basically imposed on us we had to relearn everything and not

everybody was able to adjust. for any of it it must have been really tough being in your mid forty's having built yourself a whole life and then having to start all over from scratch i can't imagine what that must have felt like if i just. didn't give up she went on to found a successful legal practice in front of my spare time. i was really shocked to learn how few east germans there are in executive positions it's a good feeling for if you and i yes sort of 121 heads of federal ministries only 3 of them are from the former east can now and it's like that across the board why is that do you think many people in the east lacked confidence and we were looked down on during reunification everything to do with the east was discarded. there are 16000000 east germans but few of them hold top positions across academia politics business media and you know.

whether someone is from east or west germany is a question that still matters to antonia even though she was born after the fall of the wall. so was her boyfriend nicholas. he grew up in western germany not far from the danish border. by that's when history happens on your doorstep a wall falls and 2 different systems collide then obviously it's something that's going to interest you. ok but it wasn't obvious

that the 2 systems were that different you were interested because the state was the. east germany was poor ok yeah but the simple fact that a wall was built to keep people in is a huge difference i'm. sure but my impression is that in the west we realized that in the east people had fewer material things of the fewer products things like coffee bananas bluejeans and so on other kind of kind of kind of so they were disadvantaged in that time they go on and so you knew that part and of course that you weren't allowed to travel or not to. buy as refund you have western germans failed to grasp or see it meant for east germans to adapt to an entirely new system to switch from socialism and a planned economy to democracy and to free market economy all the rules had changed

at work and in private knife to. put on tony has given me a different perspective and made me think about it all much more. efficient back but when i'm with antonio's family i still notice how much they talk about it the fall of the wall the east west issue. in my family it's never mentioned we never or hardly ever discussed the east west question with for people in the west like my parents it didn't make much of an impact. nothing much changed at the end. for one half of gemini little changed. to the other half the world's turned upside down on november the 9th 1909 when the whole file. was then known to november

that is now in the us the 9th of november $989.00 was my son's 18th birthday. he came of age in communist east germany so we had thrown him his 1st big party we both saw a fiat that comment on wolf then we got a call from a friend. telling us how the border was open so i was like what do you want about it sure right it's open now it'll be open tomorrow and i didn't take it seriously but again you got wind of it there and then of course the party was over and in mine 58 of us piled into my little 5 seater our car and drove to borrow much tighter they're born on a bridge on a fork of the crossing we heard was open to his eye. i. shared them and i can still remember the particular quality of the light in the stony expressions of the border police who had no idea what was going on either and

we crossed over and there we were in west berlin that's the spirit. and sake of it was deeply moving we drove back after midnight and then again i wanted to go to the brandenburg gate. i. read the sunday as a teenager it seemed so exciting. you were trapped behind a wall you couldn't cross and then at some point you could run but when i saw the film footage i just thought it uncool they're wearing those crappy clothes those horrible bright colors as a teenager i just thought man who wears that sort of thing and they're hopping

around on a wall of ice you know how does a typhoon but by my mid twenty's i found most clothes totally cool on the street someone you know. over. i'm. pleased that. sunday morning chance is helping his friend family or james back and get ready to perform in the my laptop for the park next to the former wall this famous for its weekly fee markets are told that they want to be there to snag a prime spot. but it's pretty crazy as musicians that you're kind of able to do this like put on like a proper show in the streets. you know and even the police walks by and it's like yeah keep going you know that's awesome to tens of thousands of people descend on

the park every sunday a ready made audience up and coming back. with. everything car. was through. what's now one of the most free spirited places in berlin was once important the death strip where east german guards were under order to shoot to kill if they saw anyone trying to escape.

and then tony is youngest sister said celia has just moved to berlin the siblings often come to the park together. but how would you describe it to someone who's never been here you see the history you may know them our park so you're describing it to friends from out of town what would you say. that this. place but i'd say imagine this was once the death strip here was the wall and there was the wall and now we can just walk along it and dance and play music. on monday you can see that that's the west over there you can see that the buildings on the one side are different from the buildings on the other and i tell them how wonderful it is that all these people gather here and party together that's what i'd say. almost

30 years it was a no man's land between east and west but. today the maui park is a major tourist attraction. i mean i love to dance in the park for me it's life. i love the atmosphere of the place the music the people everything about it i really hope. you know you have a it's kind of. really open and you know but there's no boundary kind of place. if you want to do it you would think and if you want to be a hero. of people shoulder. ok i like it very much it's freedom and that's very good especially in the early.

after the wall was built in 1961 you're going to regain a whole different made a conscious decision to stay in the east they were critical of the communist system but they believed in change from within. i think amounts as we were walled in. we did feel like we were trapped in the but we did what we could to broaden our horizons and also to show our children that it's in our freedom that matters the most and that with that inner freedom you can do all sorts of things and achieve all sorts of things so it's a given and use. that children that wasn't always easy to accept. to plant is france and antonius mother she finished high school just before the wall fell she'd always railed against the restrictions of life in east germany

. does the food minister dismisses this stimulus i felt like it wasn't real life or that we were somehow frozen in time and the world beyond was turning without you that was the dominant feeling for me my i longed for openness discussion all i can say is i didn't find any of that their homes and that was what i heard for and got and you knew that there was this other world by our maj and the west was something completely different we often went to the church of reconciliation and looked across the room just think we could actually see this other world you could see the double decker buses and the people in the street living lives that somehow seemed more colorful more vibrant more full of life it sounds ridiculous but when i was 12 i stood in front of the mirror and swore to myself that i wouldn't stay that i would leave this job why is that and does it

make you. sure enough in august 1909. fled to west germany via hungary and austria like tens of thousands of others that summer no one family included had the slightest suspicion that the wall would fold just 3 months later. i didn't know when i would ever see my daughter again this is the she wouldn't have been allowed back and we weren't allowed to go to the west because it was just awful for us better but we never expected to be back for christmas the same year but she was enough there you go by we're talking. oh. i'll. come. but if. you.

boroscope is good you know i. know how they would go ahead and have family live in a village outside but when there's almost always a full house. and politics is a favorite topic at the dinner table the family is alarmed by the rise of the far right in eastern germany. i keep telling people go and vote otherwise nothing will ever change that and almost 25 percent of the people in the state of brandenburg support the right wing populist party the a.f.d.c. with their political activism the head of plants a keeping reggae in a spirit a life even today she's remembered fondly in eastern germany read widely. let go of him 500 here i've just been so amazed in the last few days by how much

people remember grandma. when you were travelling. yes she's like a superhero they really idolize her. to be honest i was almost shocked. the excavator operator said that meeting i think you know hildebrand's grandchildren was like hitting the jackpot. oh while. they're out of yeah there's a lot to live up to. nowadays many in eastern germany feel there's no one on the political stage who represents that interests as a s most of us admission for a start it wasn't a reunification onces time simply imposed itself on the other west germany didn't bother to even consider if there was anything in the east german system that could have been useful to fix the problem what boosted cohesion was they didn't think what aspects of east germany should we take

a closer look at maybe keep only cared about. things that related to wrecked lead to a market economy and that was a mistake but. how he had a plant often spoke to her children about the fall of the wall about the joy every unification and the mistakes made and its aftermath. i sure would have maybe if we ingested downward. keep going. where's the man in the moon.

trance and antonio go back on the red this time they're on their way to saxony the part of the country where the shift to the far right is mystic street they want to find out why. dresden is famous for its cultural landmarks but also as the cradle of the notorious big leader movement which is nationalist anti islam and far right. after courses regularly demonstrate against chancellor angle america's refugee policy against the idea of a multicultural germany for france and antonia their extreme politics are half in line thank you when the bigoted demonstrations began. 1014 they

struck a nerve at that peak they drew 10000 people today any a small step and course still take to the streets every week antonia and funds the meeting to be as if he's put on sunglasses as a journalist he's anything but welcome here. how often have you been here. over 100 times really that's quite something to get asked to get it was founded in october 24th teen survey c.m. marks its 5th anniversary could you believe. there's a lot of dedication going into this. it's amazing how much time and energy is invested in something so pointless. it depends most people here don't think demonstrating is pointless. quite a few draw parallels with communist east germany they felt silenced then and claim

to feel silenced today even though their unafraid to spread was a rough and overtly racist slogans following after 75 years at the demonstrations in 1920 week in a prison on the move now is similar you can't dismiss these people as nazis that's just rubbish there are thousands of people these grievances and they just want to express them bring with them then the cuban didn't this is our way of telling the government that a lot is wrong with this country. issues closer personally i don't want to see islam take over germany if that's what you want fine but i don't and neither do most germans to me either so. in fact the majority of people in dresden including to be a sloth don't sympathize with the piggy to support as he says they've crossed too many lines with that inflammatory and racist rhetoric on the supernatural on them and to me these people are lost causes you can't get through to them. at the very

least they're people who will accept the file lists. logan erring in order to celebrate themselves or something better because that what chairman of us has on the us was a fortune was watching all this secret data that gave his deputy leader green. is he going to kick us out. there he can't how could he. teach he seen us there but he's pretending to ignore us. there he goes during his man of the people frank. all that he has put those guys who are hanging around before also us doesn't go there and there's a sure guys whatever they like circling sharks know exactly why the force is the biggest supporters of a small but vocal minority but the fact remains the far right is gaining ground. it's good to but i think the there are right wing tendencies all over europe and there's donald trump in the us but here it's taken on

a different dimensions it's not just about job losses and industry it's being shut down which is bad enough it's like the warm food it's the fact that there's been an entirely new society to adjust to daily life values of and that. is what i mean to say is there is no justification whatsoever for racism and marginalizing people that's completely totally wrong but i can understand that people feel frustrated and left behind and that they struggle to identify with our society today to spring up for. the far right a.f.d. as seizing the moment in saxony intented the state parliament in 2014 and is currently the state strongest party after the c.d.u. . antonio in france a meeting a.f.d. politician on the events it's not a conversation any of them exactly relishes as it was if you know i assume you know

that we don't sympathize with the f.d.a. would. or you don't have to we don't i think the f.t. is pretty creepy to be honest. about yourself a lot of the slogan on my election poster is there must be limits to immigration. the f.d.a. was founded in 2013 which is when the 1st wave of asylum seekers arrived in germany and there was no firm political intervention you could not think. and you think most of them risked their lives and get in these rubber boats just to economic reasons to quote a majority yes that's my opinion. as to being a racist i don't know why i can't explain that because if you have no clue what will be interesting to know why your party which you're active in is seen as racist it's an accusation meant to make us look back at. work and it's best to get there what about the terrible speeches denying history and the diatribes against

homosexuals. the of aspects of a it's a question of how the media instrumentalists is these issues in germany. people are labeled far right very quickly article young guns of what it is that i think a point that i don't know exactly true that given our history we germans have a particular duty when it comes to the expression of far right opinions that goes without saying the obligation to. transcendental any and spend an hour talking to and prevent but they find little common ground. to make your stance that it's just very obvious to me that the democracy we live in can't be taken for granted and i'm very aware that it's not an especially good

shape right now i'm past everyone. it's monday evening and france and his housemates are having a policy. just a stone's throw from where their grandmother once lived from where the but once stood from the film a fun night and if the cold war the grandchildren and celebrating with friends from around the world and it so my america. dear friends dear antonia celia i'm sitting on the terrace at twilight it's peaceful. my 3 grandchildren sleep untroubled in front of me are photo

albums that date back to when i was younger than you are now how times have changed . as a 943 when i was 2 the same age is to serious now it was wartime we were evacuated from central berlin our home to the country shortly thereafter our home was bombs we lost almost everything we owned. at antonia's age i had experienced evacuation the end of the war back in berlin i lived in makeshift lodgings with a toilet in the stairwell i started over from nothing. when i was 8 france's age germany was split into 2 and remain divided for decades. when your mother was born in 1969 the wall was already 8 years old. you my grandchildren were born after the wall fell born in a unified germany a wonderful time a time of great joy. now i'm going to get political. it will be nice if we could

get better at making our towns and cities proper communities. where rich or the sick and the healthy the young and the old the disadvantaged any advantaged could live together and children would learn from early on how to get along together and how to take responsibility for our world i'm. going to feel fairly darkness has fallen still peaceful may have remained so for your sakes my dear grandchildren. perry.

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