program unsigned letters austin harrison commented on letters that reached him from communist east germany. dear radio london you give us hope help us please do it we trust you for decades thousands of east germans wrote to the b.b.c. reporting the day to day and political problems in their lives on the. but the letter writers had no idea that the popular b.b.c. radio program was at the center of a propaganda battle in divided germany. in 1938 o'clock would become the b.b.c. world service began radio broadcasts from london to other countries and languages their food london calling them. so you don't hear what so that the asylum ali. the b.b.c. also began broadcasting to germany and 938 when the war began a year later listening to it was banned but many risked their lives to tune into it as a reliable and reputable news source after the war ended the b.b.c. developed a special service for what became east germany because it received more and more letters from there at the beginning of the $950.00 s. the program unsigned letters began intended as a counterbalance to communist media it quickl

but this was not known to its listeners in east germany. i think if it had it would probably have stopped people from writing to the b.b.c. and it gives credence to the stasi allegations which say well these people are corresponding with western government agencies and they are providing material to anti communist. functionaries and so they are harming our state the while austin horris and shared the contents of the listener's letters with the foreign ministries in london and bonn can hines bore shot had to serve his sentence in the desert our prison. for juvenile offenders. were the young man separated from family and home for writing a few critical letters it was both traumatic and highly formative. sure to those. is a key experience was this young lieutenant who talked with me as he drove me there . he ended the conversation with the remark you are lucky that you live in east germany today under the nazis we have sent you up the chimney already for legs to shrug but we are. to date there are no official numbers on how many letter writers

colleagues almost nothing about his regular trips to east germany. but he shared the details with the secret department in the foreign office these reports also went to the west german federal government in bonn as can be seen in documents from the political archives of the german foreign ministry. i have never heard of this but i am not surprised it really fits into what i often asked myself there is more to it then what i'm presented here the feeling that there is more to it than we think there will be we this stuff basically very naive going about our business and thinking we're working for the b.b.c. whereas you actually working for the foreign office i think this is what a lot of my colleagues never really grasped. even more explosive the b.b.c.'s regular analyses of letters from east german listeners. these were also sent to the i r d. highlighting the most relevant extracts it in turn passed on these findings about the political mood in the east to its west german allies. every 2 weeks as a matter of course these reports on listen the research

but this was not known to its listeners in east germany. iraq. i think it had it would probably have stopped those people from writing to the b.b.c. and it gives credence to the stasi allegations which say well these people are corresponding with western government agencies and they are providing material to anti communist. functionaries and so they are harming our state the while austin harrison shared the contents of the listener's letters with the foreign ministries in london and bonn can hines bore shot to sound his sentence in the desert our prison for juvenile offenders the for the young man separated from family and home for writing a few critical letters it was both traumatic and highly formative. sure sir that it was. is a key experience was this young lieutenant who talked with me as he drove me there . he ended the conversation with the remark you are lucky that you live in east germany today under the nazis we'd have sent you up the chimney already for luther to traunch but we are willing to date there are no official numbers on how m

codename young person from east germany i am still a child but understand what is going on here in east germany in a school they incite against the capitalist countries. can you please answer my question soon please do it i trust you. can hines poor child from thais found her as one of those youthful letter writers bank that. the son of a homemaker and the accountant he had a pretty typical childhood for his time. i'd have to say i was perhaps an average east german teenager comes off with did all i always had a leading role in the young pioneers group was. in my class i was usually the deputy leader for all and us was so wise for the staff. i only became critical of the developments in east germany in the 7th or 8th grade. then western radio stations i played are also. a lot more total. sing us. like many other young people columbines was enthusiastic about rock n roll which we listen to on stations such as the b.b.c. . but also politically he began to move away from the official thinking of east germany. in 1968 he wrote 2 unsigned letters for the 1st time when he was just 16 years ol

codename young person from east germany i am still a child but understand what is going on here in east germany in a school they incite against the capitalist countries. can you please answer my question soon please do it i trust you. can hines gorge chart from ties found her as one of those youthful letter writers back then. the son of a homemaker and the accountant he had a pretty typical childhood for his time. pong folk well slow on the search i'd have to say i was perhaps an average east german teenager of course but did it well i always had a leading role in the young pioneers group. then class of one my class i was usually the deputy leader for all and us close to my forster for close i only became critical of the developments in east germany in the 7th or 8th grade. in the day the eldest then western radio stations played are all bunch. of lot old. like many other young people karl-heinz was enthusiastic about rock'n'roll which he listened to on stations such as the b.b.c. . but also politically he began to move away from the official thinking of east germany. in 1968 he wrote t

east germany. dear radio london you give us hope help us please do it we trust you for decades thousands of east germans wrote to the b.b.c. reporting the day to day and political problems in their lives. but the letter writers had no idea that the popular b.b.c. radio programme. at the center of a propaganda battle in divided germany. in 1938 block would become the b.b.c. world service began radio broadcasts from london to other countries and languages their food london calling body of law and i'm. sorry that you were so that the asylum ali. the b.b.c. also began broadcasting to germany and 938 when the war began a year later listening to it was bad but many risked their lives to tune into it as a reliable and reputable news source after the war ended the b.b.c. developed a special service for what became east germany because it received more and more letters from there at the beginning of the $950.00 s. the program unsigned letters began intended as a counterbalance to communist media it quickly

but this was not known to its listeners in east germany. iraq. had it would probably have stopped people from writing to the b.b.c. and it gives credence to the stasi allegations which say well these people are corresponding with western government agencies and they are providing material to anti communist. functionaries and so they are harming our state the while austin harrison the contents of the listener's letters with a foreign ministries in london and bonn can hines borsch art to serve his sentence in the desert our prison. for juvenile offenders. were the young man separated from family and home for writing a few critical letters it was both traumatic and highly formative. to lose. is a key experience was this young lieutenant who talked with me as he drove me there . he ended the conversation with the remark you are lucky that you live in east germany today under the nazis we'd have sent you up the chimney already 4 legs to sean shot me are. to date there are no official numbers on how many letter writers to the b.b.c. were arrested or co

austin harrison regularly traveled to east germany in the 1960 s. and seventy's the b.b.c. was one aware of his troops but it made little mention of them and its reporting. time peter sana became the host of a new b.b.c. music program and got to know him. personally when. east germany to for the fair in various other events like that and then he would come back with precious little about work done what he had seen or conclusions. what is it you do there. by contrast harrison's trips to east berlin were always a special topic for east germany's feared secret police the stasi. they always kept a close watch over him. during her research so as on a shared leash found a large number of documents that illustrate the actions that took against the b.b.c. . code named operation thrower one document accuses the broadcaster of psychological warfare. and alston harrison of being a british spy. care for the stars he asked him harrison was the number one enemy or at least one of the number one enemy is. he ran the incitement program with the unassigned letters that aim to discredit and

and it is east germany that i'm talking about. and he was not conscious at that time. of whether hungry and poland and check and slovakia would follow he was determined that germany should be united in nato, but it is. force to think that he already anticipated the other countries of eastern europe. now as we all know now. in 2004 and subsequently the other eastern countries eastern european countries joined nato. and that has provoked the russians by now to claim that baker broke his word. and they have used this one inch further east in their propaganda to say you can't can't trust americans they break their word. so finding that record of that meeting in february 1990 was critically important to understand what really happened. where the gaps i'll tell you what because i hope it's the subject of my next book. there was a very important meeting in february 1992 between president bush and boris yeltsin. was up at camp david. and the content of those meetings really establish the relationship between the united states and russia for the next 15 years. and those are the

this did not take place in east germany. the wall collapsed in 1989, but until that point, i lived in germany and my doctoral thesis was on the control of world war ii history. people were soup we not talk about the holocaust and many other crimes as well. in east germany, they were told quite literally that bach and beethoven were from eastern germany and hitler was from west germany and all of the nazis and evil people from world war ii had gone over to the west. this was part of the education system and so on. not only were they told this fabrication, but they were also not taught how to incisively look at historical records, documents, do research, have discussions, disagreements, debates, arguments about the past. you were taught a certain line and had to stick to that line. there were some very good historians in east germany but they were not given the freedom to publish what they wanted to because they were always in fear of being punished for this. yes, i think this has had a huge effect on the rise of the afd. there

and it is east germany that i'm talking about.

and it was a long, slow process, in east germany, because the leaders of communist east germany were genuine anti-fascists, who had spent the war either in concentration camps or in exile. otherwise they would have been killed. we had kind of a top down we are going to do monuments to heroes. we're going to renovate the buchenwald concentration camp and make every school child visit it. we are going to redo the lesson plans. they did not to it perfectly. but you did have a consistent desire to acknowledge that the nazis were criminals. and that defeating them was liberation. you did not have that in the west. you had what was sometimes called, a philosopher called it, communicative silence. no one wanted to talk about the war. some people say that was part of the economic miracle. i mean, the economic miracle was not exactly a miracle either it involved an awful lot of money from the marshall plan. but people's homes were in ruins or they were homeless. there was an enormous amount of energy put into simply building up the physical ruins. and no one wanted to talk about the moral rui

checkpoint charlie, one of the original armbands that was used at the guard gate that separated east and west germany and downtown berlin. also some east and west german stance from the era. up on top there are original east burr and west berlin german sign saying this is the border you cannot go past us, and to let people know it was a dangerous area or that it was the no man zone in between the border of eastern least jeremy where the wall was. here we have the original border marker that would separate east and west germany. it would give people walking in the area and idea there getting close to the border and to not cross over the border. then down here on the floor, one of our signs from east berlin, west berlin, saying that no photographs are allowed for the united states military liaison mission. missions were allowed to be in the foreign countries, but they always do a catalyst game in trying to chase them out. we're getting into some civil defense. the cold war museum, back in about 2000 if or so, we saved and salvaged the civil defense headquarters from washington, d.c.. this headquarters

song became popular in communist east germany distributed on illegal cassette recordings so i knew i had a lot of friends and of course i wanted to meet them to go there take off my glasses and say good day to you come a little closer. bishan was to form behind the iron curtain he waited a long time for an invitation from the country's communist leader aries hanukah then finally in 1803 a one off performance in east berlin under the watchful eye of the state security apparatus. in the 1990 s. with germany reunited. for a while then the book took up painting depicting german history on paper using a rock n roll touch paints distilled from alcoholic beverages his paintings were hung in the german chancellor's office is quite an accolade from the world of politics. in 2008 there was a major musical return to form a new album featuring collaboration's with the stars of later generations went to number one fans old and new packed stadiums 1st sold out. the coronavirus pandemic has slowed down for the time being but at 75 he says he's got no time to grow old. and the bag's home town of gor

east germany -- toured east germany as guests of a scalper. german scouts rejected anything smacking of militarism. military style uniforms, insignias, ranks, anything like that, and as we hiked through small towns in the hearts of mountains locals would occasionally collect was comparing us to the hitler youth movement when we were wearing american scouting uniforms. can you speak to the contrast of how militarism is actively rejected in germany versus the way it is celebrated in the u.s. particularly by white supremacists and other right wing groups in the u.s.? dr. neiman: that is an interesting story, and i can imagine that happening very clearly. in fact, germans did not raise flags. you had to be a right wing german to hold a flag until the world cup, it was 2006. that was an important moment. we did not quite when it -- win it, but it is ok to wave a flag at a soccer game. there is a huge rejection for militarism and authoritarianism. there was a big move against it just after the war. the american occupation very much wanted there to b

his most famous topic was the division of germany as in the song the girl from east berlin. the song became popular in communist east germany distributed on illegal cassette recordings so i knew i had a lot of friends and of course i wanted to meet them to go there take off my glasses and say good day to you come a little closer. to form behind the iron curtain he waited a long time for an invitation from the country's communist leader areas hanukah then finally in $1803.00 a one off performance in east berlin under the watchful eye of the stars of the state security apparatus. in the 1990 s. with germany reunited. for a while linda burke took up painting depicting german history on paper using a rock n roll touch paints distilled from alcoholic beverages his paintings were hung in the german chancellor office is quite an accolade from the world of politics. in 2008 there was a major musical return to form a new album featuring collaboration's with the stars of later generations went to number one fans old and new packed stadiums for a sold out. the coronavirus pandemic has

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international garden show was hosted in force in 865-3961 when it was in the former communist east germany it began staging regular international horticultural shows with the new park at the heart. the park remains the main attraction 60 years later the huge garden complex is one of the state's top tourist attractions and will remain in bloom and told this year's show in. power is relieved at this year's show is able to open with covert restrictions in place she spent 3 years working to get the pizzas in shape. we really hope that visitors to the pater's bag will see the fortress in a new light. noise. the new space is with the many delicate flowers different colors and sense. and few fitting for do so it will give them fresh input and joy. he's a floater especially in this corona virus pandemic. joy at the federal horticultural show in a city famous for its floral tradition. and after its success in 10 other cities around the world an exhibition devoted to dutch artist and see opens this week in barcelona as one of the world's most widely admired graphic artists famously united arts with

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he spends the rest of his life in east germany. and a member of the continental party. a member of the elite. he's given as such privileges as a party member. and it goes back to working, he tries to start a reactor program. he works as a physicist, he believes in the idea nuclear energy can, you know, provide electricity, that it's a force for good. of course east germans have no interest in doing that. they have all this black coal they think they can rely on. >> yap. >> so he had a rather frustrating career after this. he is still loyal to the ideology of the party. >> he was loyal to the ideology but he was not loyal, so much, to the party. he was a person who never complained. he kept his mouth shut. but he did decide, he thought stalin-ism was terrible. a real i say shun of communism, not real communism. i will say he got to the same point with the east german. didn't quite say it but he was devastated they would not let him get the reactor program going. a huge disappointment. >> you got to know his son as a source, right? >> his nephew. yes, i do know him, very

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the people liberated themselves from communist rule and east germany fell apart lehman's informal talks with librarians in likes it suddenly became a political mission to reunify the institution. but what would become this the german library in like. your lawyer had been a librarian there since 1974 and was part of negotiations after the wall fell. on them we sat here in this room with lehmann and his partners sat here at the front i was sitting on one of the chairs at the back somewhere as i can remember it quite clearly well initially there was a brief silence he must have been asking himself how we 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 and 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. in august 1990 the 2 german states signed the unification treaty in berlin and the status of the new national library was made official including its 2 location. frankfurt's and like this. thanks. to since

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say this is the quiet before the storm during the cold war. dressed and was in the soviet rules east germany. after reunification, many young east germans turned to right wing extremism flaming mainly immigrants for any problems they faced. you always want to beat a club like dresden because you want to show the world that the good guys can. sometimes when almost 30000 home fans will be joined by an expected 2000 dressed and supporters. we have more security than usual. my name is sam brooks and i'm responsible for organizing all this stuff are on the home that shows including security to things both support groups are not best friends and not last major over here to match against race. and we had some trouble to visit this section. i wouldn't say all the dream and fence. not just that, that's not the point, but some of them insights. no question. today both teams are in danger of being, are relegated, so jason is lost in the table. we have 15, so that means the fans on both sides. i'm nervous and it depends what happening on the pitch as well. thank you so much bye. i'm told you find if you

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