and it remains just step we sent my colleague our very own reporter christophe kober to go where millions it seems like east germans headed after the wall began to fall 30 years ago good evening to you krista also talk to me a little bit about the boulevard where you are to know life. well the cooler for saddam as you mentioned bears large significance. because here. on the court for some dumb on the shopping boulevard. it is it is a place like few others in germany where the abundance of goods in a free market society and the might of the consumer are on display or have been on display for decades shops here have been selling old fashion from paris shoes handmade in italy or pricey jewelry with diamonds from botswana and of course it is home to the world famous d.v.d. the department store off the west as it is called it is here that people from the g.d.r. and east berlin flocked to the border was open in order to see what had been unavailable to them to see what they have been craving for decades and you have to keep in mind that the west german government gave each east german citizen u

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