, that motivates people like marlies gohr and the other great sprinters, like marita koch and renate stechertake drugs, that their records were genuine, that they had talent, they were great athletes, and that what you have said and done in recent years simply delegitimises and undermines them? in recent years, you have written very interestingly about the connections between this abuse, this doping, that was systematic in east germany, and the deeper traumas that people in the east have experienced. as you have said in your own writing, that people in the east, families, have never really talked about what it meant to live under successive dictatorships — the nazis and then the communists. people, you say, don't realise how traumatised people in the east have been. do you think that is relevant when we talk about what happened in east germany, and the way in which it has been dealt with since german unification? do you think the west hasn't been good at understanding the east? i mean, because in politics today in germany, we see that, in the east, there is very strong support for far—right