much of the former east germany is struggling in the communist era the country was rundown and on the verge of bankruptcy since 1909 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 like knights or 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. i can dig all that up you see the cable is connected to the mast and the mast lifts the arm it's perfectly safe which is wobbles and it is all right i'll sit down. wow. is it could but snuff has been operating an excavator for 35 years shifting up just 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 n

much of the former east germany is struggling in the communist era the country was rundown and on the verge of bankruptcy since 1909 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 like knights or 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. i can dig all that up you see the cable it's connected to the mast and the mast lifts the arm it's perfectly safe which is wobbles of it all right so i'll sit down. wow. sikka but slough 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'

he came of age in communist east germany. so we had thrown him his 1st big party boats and a fiat that commonwealth. then we got a call from a friend telling us how the border was open. so i was like, what are you on about? sure, right. it's open now, it'll be open tomorrow and i didn't take it seriously. but again, it got wind of it there. and then of course the party was over. in 958 of us piled into my little 5 seater our car and drove to borrow much trust. no one on the bridge on a fork of the crossing we heard was open to his i 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. it's the spring as it lands a cliff. he was deeply moving. were 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

much of the former east germany is struggling in the communist era the country was rundown and on the verge of bankruptcy since 1909 nearly 25 percent of the population has moved away. wow. there's little industry left here. but 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 like knight or brown coal mining is a major employer and an integrity part of the region's identity zuko but sluffed has spent her entire working life in a coal mine. as it is does i'm about to start up the excavator 1st i'll give a warning and then i'll set the excavator in motion. i can dig all that up you see the cable it's connected to the mast and the mast lifts the arm it's perfectly safe which is wobbles of it all right so i'll sit down. wow. sikka but snuff 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'

he came of age in communist east germany. so we've thrown him his 1st, big party balls of fire and then 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? sure, right. it's open now. it'll be open tomorrow. 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, 8 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. he hid 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. it's in this film. is it nancy? because he was deeply moving, were drove back after midnight. there and then again, i wanted to go to the brandenburg gate. i had the funding. as a teenager, it seemed so exciting. you were trapped behind a wall, you couldn't cross. an

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. the following after several of i was at the demonstrations in 1009. and the mood now is similar. you can't dismiss these people as nazis, that's just rubbish. there are thousands of people have grievances and they just want to express them. bring with them then you haven't didn't. this is our way of telling the government that a lot is wrong with this country. is 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. you're either so many. 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. this information only mentioned to me, these people are lost causes you can't get through to them, or thought it was too old. or at the ver

was apparently structurally sound when it was controversially dynamited by the world as a communist east. germany in 1950, they saw it as a symbol of prussian militarism, the communist rubber stamp parliament, the palace. the republic was then built in its place. it was also a cultural center. and then after german reunification in 1980, started about rebuilding the palace. those in favor started raising money in particularly boy, creating a giant mock up of the burn in paris facade at the original location. and that she was very successful, but there was still quite a lot of opposition. that's why some people thought that demolishing the past the republic would be more sweeping german history under the carpet. others said it was part of a disney land trend, creating fake old buildings in germany. but those in favor did when the resulting building is rather oppressive. and of course, we're going to have great trouble culture in the city. but the controversy is there is there because very early on it was decided, the main function of the new building would be to house to museums, the ethnological

was apparently structurally sound when it was controversially dynamited by the rulers of communist east germany. in 1950, they saw it as a symbol of oppression, militarism, the communist rubberstamp parliament, the palace, the republic was then built in its place. it was also a cultural center. and then after german reunification in 1900 started about rebuilding the palace. those in favor started raising money into tickly boy, creating a giant mock up of the berlin palace facade at the original location that she was very successful. but there was still quite a lot of opposition. that's why some people thought that demolishing the past the republic would be more sweeping german history under the carpet. others said it was part of a deceased need and trend to creating fake old buildings in germany. but those in favor did when the resulting building is rather oppressive. and of course we're going to have great trouble culture in the city. but the controversy is there is there because very early on it was decided, the main function of the new building would be to house 2 museums, the ethnological m

was apparently structurally sound when it was controversially dynamited by the world as a communist east. germany in 1950, they saw it as a symbol of prussian militarism, the communist rubber stamp parliament, the palace. the republic was then built in its place. it was also a cultural center. and then after german reunification in 1988 started about building the palace. those in favor started raising money in tick boy, creating a giant mock up of the berlin palace facade at the original location that she was very successful. but there was still quite a lot of opposition. that's why some people thought that demolishing the past the republic would be more sweeping german history under the carpet. others said it was part of it does need land trend, creating fake old buildings in germany. but those in favor did when the resulting building is rather oppressive. and of course, we're going to have great trouble culture in the city. but the more controversy there is there, because very early on it was decided, the main function of the new building would be to house 2 museums, the ethnological museum of

was apparently structurally sound when it was controversially dynamited by the rulers, a communist east, germany in 1950, they saw it as a symbol of prussian militarism, the communist rubber stamp parliament the palace. the republic was then built in its place, it was also a cultural center. and then after german reunification in 1980 by started about rebuilding the palace. those in favor started raising money in particular, boy, creating a giant mock up of the burning palace facade at the original location that she was very successful, but there was still quite a lot of opposition. that's why some people thought that demolishing the past the republic would be more sweeping german history under the carpet. others said it was part of it does need land trend, creating fake old buildings in germany. but those in favor did when the resulting building is rather impressive. and of course, we're going to have great trouble culture in the city. but the more controversy there is there, because very early on it was decided, the main function of the new building would be to house 2 museums, the ethnologica

in 1989, communist east germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the westay have been as many as 100,000 east germans who visited the west side today. they waited in long lines at established checkpoints or just climbed over the hated wall. thousands spent the evening walking around in the cuedon section of berlin, where many bought items they can't find in the communist east. some using a nearly $100 allotment paid all east germans to come to the west. alloentmt paid all east germans to come to the west. ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn... if you've been taking copd sitting down, it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high bl

all these years of stagnation started, not she was the people liberated themselves from communist rule and east germanyfell apart. lehman's informal talks with librarians and say, suddenly became a political mission to really, you know, fi the institution. what would become of the german library in life has been a library in there since 1974 and was part of negotiations after the wall came down . he was among those who feared that east germany would end up on the losing side of reunification with the rules. we sat here in this room because he and his partner sat here at the front and i was sitting on one of the chairs at the back somewhere. i can remember it quite clearly. initially there was a brief silence. he must have been asking himself how we in life would react to these invaders. but it wasn't an invasion. he was pretty clear about that. he said we were working on a common plan because one of the 1st sentences i can still remember was, the greater germany that's coming into being here could certainly use a national library with 2 locations. instead of offering 1st it was night. and frankfurt's n

was the people liberated themselves from communist rule and east germany fell apart.lehmann's informal talks with librarians in light say, suddenly became a political mission to really, you know, fi the institution. what would become of the german library in life has been a library in there since 1974 and was part of negotiations after the wall came down . he was among those who feared that east germany would end up on the losing side of reunification. with the rules we sat here in this room because he and his partner sat here at the front and i was sitting on one of the chairs at the back somewhere. i can remember it quite clearly. initially there was a brief silence. he must have been asking himself how we in life would react to these invaders. but it wasn't an invasion. he was pretty clear about that. he said we were working on a common plan, but one of the 1st sentences i can still remember was, the greater germany that's coming into being here could certainly use a national library with 2 locations. instead of offering 1st, it was not. and frank lehmann solution

these years of stagnation started, not your god, the people liberated themselves from communist rule and east germany fell apart. informal talks with librarians and say, suddenly became a political mission to really, you know, fi the institution. what would become of the german library in life has been a library in there since 1974 and was part of negotiations after the wall came down . he was among those who feared that east germany would end up on the losing side every unification. of the rules we sat here in this room because he and his partner sat here at the front and i was sitting on one of the chairs at the back somewhere . i can remember it quite clearly. initially there was a brief silence. he must have been asking himself how we in life fish would react to these invaders. but it wasn't an invasion. he was pretty clear about that. he said we were working on a common plan because one of the 1st sentences i can still remember was, the greater germany that's coming into being here could certainly use a national library with 2 locations. instead of offering it was not. and frank lehmann solution

the people liberated themselves from communist rule and east germany fell apart.lehman's informal talks with librarians and lights, a suddenly became a political mission to reuse the institution. what would become of the german library in life? has been a library in there since 1974 and was part of negotiations after the wall came down . he was among those who feared that east germany would end up on the losing side every unification. we sat here in this room because he and his partner sat here at the front and i was sitting on one of the chairs at the back somewhere. i can remember it quite clearly. initially there was a brief silence. he must have been asking himself how we in life would react to these invaders. but it wasn't an invasion. he was pretty clear about that. he said we were working on a common plan because one of the 1st sentences i can still remember was, the greater germany that's coming into being here could certainly use a national library with 2 locations. instead of offering and franks name and solution safeguarded the internal unity of the nat

was the people liberated themselves from communist rule and east germany fell apart.lehman's informal talks with librarians and lights, they suddenly became a political mission to really, you know, fi the institution. what would become of the german library in life? has been a library in there since 1974 and was part of negotiations after the wall came down . he was among those who feared that east germany would end up on the losing side of reunification with the rules. we sat here in this room, a layman and his partner sat here at the front and i was sitting on one of the chairs at the back somewhere. i can remember it quite clearly. initially there was a brief silence. he must have been asking himself how we in life would react to these invaders. but it wasn't an invasion. he was pretty clear about that. he said we were working on a common plan because one of the 1st sentences i can still remember was, the greater germany that's coming into being here could certainly use a national library with 2 locations instead of offering. and frank layman solution safeguarded t

east germany. and great pillars of the communist world.and there is a very tragic public story rounded up and murdered. and that determination to battle fascism cam from what is happening to her family. >> and other readers everywhere will love this book this is where spies really do pull out that incriminating piece of paper and swallowt.

and he spends the rest of his life, in east germany and a member of the elite, of the communist party, and he's given such privileges and, he goes back to working on science, he tries to start a reactor program, a nuclear reactor, and he's a physicist and he believes in the idea that nuclear energy, can provide electricity and believes in the idea that the that is a force for good. and of course the east germans, they have no interest in doing that they have all this black hole that they think they can rely on, so he had a rather frustrating career after this. but he is still loyal to the ideology, to the party, he was. >> he was loyal to the ideology, but he wasn't loyal so much to the party. he was a person that never complained, he just kept a small shut but he did decide and he thought that stalin-ism was terrible. and a real eyes a shun of communism not real communism. and i'm sure he got to the same point, with easter mints. he didn't quite say it, but he was devastated when they wouldn't let him you don't have the reactor program. it was a huge disappointment. he got to know hi

germany site. was the wall became a rallying point in the cold war over decades to communist soviet system on the east faced off against a western capitalist system another us president writes in himself into the history books with this immortal demand that we should all care down this wall 3 years later gemini was one that heralded a new era in us german relations barack obama enjoyed a rock star reception when he visited on route to the white house and more informal among friends. but the alliance took a turn for the worse when obama successor donald trump was voted in more than once he appeared to disrespect german chancellor angela merkel for instance when he ignored calls to shake her hand at a press conference relations between the 2 countries cooled down dramatically for the german foreign minister sigma gabriele blames a failure of diplomacy. relations between germany and america have always been difficult but i think the problems have never been so deep and this has to do with the fact that the current president is treating us more like enemies than allies or partners. right now there are unr

communist language emerged in the 1920s. this information is designed to exacerbate something already existing. for example, highly polarized situation in the 1970s in the context of the peace movement in favor from nuclear weapons and east germanyrted very much to help the peace movement because it's their interest to criticize americans in a sense but created an intellectually different problem. how do you react, i'm going to suggest something unusual, look at this problem from the view of the operator running an operation. the cold war, if you're exacerbating an existing phenomenon how can you tell really, whether you are the cause of a certain development or something was already happening? so i think what we are looking at today is a situation there trying to, especially in 2020, russian intelligence communities continue to try to take advantage of assisting advancement friction in the united states but if we fall into this trap with the action, too much power, for example, if you claim that the russian election interference was responsible for getting volatile elected, there is not enough evidence to support that claim. we cannot say for a fact they had an actual impact on the 2016 election. but if you make that judgment,

communist language does emerge in the 1920s. this was designed to exacerbate information that was already existing. for example a highly parized situation in the 1970s the context of the peace movement. soviets in east germanyery much in the exampl example. let's ultimatelyerves their interest. but that creates an intellectually really difficult problem. i'm going to suggest something unusual, look at this problem from the point of view of the operator running an operati say the kgb in the cold war. you are exacerbating an existing phenomenon,ow can you tell really whether you are the cause of a certain development or whether something was already happening without you? so i think what we are looking at today is the situation that trying to especially known 2020 the russian intelligence committee tries to take advantage of existin debates, frictions in the united states. but if we fall intohe track of ascribing to to much power. for example if you think her claim that the russian election interference with response before getting donald trump elected simply not enough evidence to support that claim. we cannot say for a fact there's an actual impact on the electio election. let's make that judgment if you sa