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 convicted however the $973.00 shanti report shows that there were 15 arrests that year for letters to the b.b.c. . a lot of you are can alan is also taking a trip back in time fortunately for him his letters to the b.b.c. were not in to sent it back banned but as a young student he faced the next ordeal conscription into the east german national people's army. this was unthinkable for christians and pacifists refusing m