lived in the east and the personal experiences surrounding this historic day the photographer gabriela sturtz was about to give a speech a demonstration against the regime in our hometown of effort when she heard the news. 989 right before i went up to hold my speech someone tell me on the shoulder if you want you can say that the war has false cons and i thought right very funny of course i didn't believe it. for 41 years germany was a divided country from 1961 until 989 a while even split berlin into the western part belonged to democratic west germany the eastern part to communist east germany it guarded its borders zealously anyone who tried to escape was arrested or shot criticizing the regime could land you in jail. as well was put in jail an effort for her political protest in here. street home to the 4 mushed as he remained to present. the thing this. was east germans dreaded secret police. just remember this is when you heard that the keys you knew something was up and those sounds started. really hard to forget. long and. in the early 1970 s. a doctor was a university student in alf