west germany hamburg the rhineland varia and barton were back in the south have an average per capita income of twenty three thousand or even more but there are also examples where is the west have grown together right here in terrain here in the middle very close to the former in a german border we found a company where workers from the east and west are reaping the economic rewards of reunification. around one hundred people work here a proprietary limited in highest off the ring which was once in east germany close to the border with bavaria in west germany they manufacture technical ceramic components the workforce here was born and bred on both sides of the border in this if i'm from west germany but it doesn't really matter it's decided to go on he said you know some of us are from the west some from the east but we all get along with each other very well. do you know what i mean no one still uses the expressions in this seat and aussie but actually nobody cares you go to. the factory stand in the middle of what used to be no man's land between the ranger a

close to the border with the various in west germany they manufacture technical ceramic components the workforce here was born and bred on both sides of the border she said you know some of us are from the west some from the east but we all get along with each other very well so i think. the factory stands in the middle of what used to be no man's land between the ranger and varia on the death strip between east and west germany. like everyone around here noise remembers the time when germany was divided only a few meters from the factory there's still a small piece of wall as a reminder the citizens of the g.d.r. were told it was for their protection. they were under special observation here in the border zone then on the nineteenth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty nine everything changed the whole and noisy bar was there when these pictures were taken. from the east people came running towards the still closed and heavily guarded border. town bands from both sides were also there peacefully and without violence they broke the wall down. have you look if the

the workforce here was born and bred on both sides of the border in this if i'm from west germany but it doesn't really matter it's decided to go on he said you know some of us are from the west some from the east but we all get along with each other very well so i think that what you meant in one still uses the expressions investee and aussie but actually nobody cares don't go to. the factory stand in the middle of what used to be no man's land between the ranger and varia on the death strip between east and west germany. this in here going on here right in the form of border strip there used to be rifles on tripwires and landmines. like everyone around here all an annoyed by our remembers the time when germany was divided only a few meters from the factory there's still a small piece of wall as a reminder the citizens of the g.d. were told it was for their protection. they were under special observation here in the border zone then on the nineteenth of november one thousand nine hundred nine everything changed all and noid bar was there when these pictures were taken. from the east

the workforce here was born and bred on both sides of the border in this if i'm from west germany but it doesn't really matter it's decided to go on he said you know some of us are from the west some from the east but we all get along with each other very well i think but you know what i meant in one still uses the expressions investee and ossie but actually nobody cares you go to. the factory stands in the middle of what used to be no man's land between the ranger and bavaria on the death strip between east and west germany. is in here you know i mean right in the form of border strip there used to be rifles on tripwires and landmines. like everyone around here all an annoyed by our remembers the time when germany was divided only a few meters from the factory there's still a small piece of wall as a reminder the citizens of the g.d. were told it was for their protection. they were under special observation here in the border zone then on the nineteenth of november one thousand nine hundred nine everything changed all and noid i was there when these pictures were taken. from the east

close to the border with the various in west germany they manufacture technical ceramic components the workforce here was born and bred on both sides of the border she said you know some of us are from the west some from the east but we all get along with each other very well so i think. the factory stands in the middle of what used to be no man's land between the ranger and varia on the death strip between east and west germany. like everyone around here. remembers the time when germany was divided only a few meters from the factory there's still a small piece of war as a reminder the citizens of the g.d.r. were told it was for their protection. they were under special observation here in the border zone then on the nineteenth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty nine everything changed all and noid bar was there when these pictures were taken. from the east people came running towards the still closed and heavily guarded border. town bands from both sides were also there peacefully and without violence they brought the wall down. there. was an alley have you because they

in october one nine hundred seventy seven homegrown terrorists west germany. the red army faction had kidnapped business executive hunts martin. they wanted to trade him for their imprisoned leaders under a spider and. then a second front opened for palestinians hijacked a loved one's a passenger plane called the lunch hoot. they also demanded the release of r.a.f. terrorists imprisoned in west germany. for the eighty hostages a five day odyssey began. with the. in south yemen the hostage takers killed the lufthansa pilot the copilot was forced to make one last stop mogadishu somalia the only country that would allow the hijacked plane to land. west german chancellor helmut schmidt was forced to make the most difficult decision of his political career negotiate with terrorists or storm the plane. schmidt decided to take the risk. the rescue operation took just seven minutes. three hijackers were killed one of them injured all the hostages survived. within hours the r.a.f. terrorists at the center of this crisis and they are spada and. were found dead in their

and leftist groups in west germany. vite in some people including intellectuals artists students university students and staff felt a certain affinity with the r.a.f. in truth and. in june one thousand nine hundred seventy two police camp had three key r.a.f. members at a warehouse in frankfurt called the mines. and underway as bada. who do enslin and when we can mind who were arrested soon afterwards. that's how toxic there was a major contradiction with the r.a.f. and their trial and all that. they had the most impact and post the greatest threat and one still leaders had been put behind bars. and. the r.e. of defendants was sent to sham home prison in stuttgart a special court facility was built on the prison grounds at a cost of twelve million monks it was a unique development in west german history the judge hearing the case was an experienced legal scholar and the form of a mark left on it. for the next in this case will follow strict legal procedures we will ensure that the rights of the accused are guaranteed. o

which is part of the left that they are dealing with a fascist system here in west germany. that's minus mit and it's run by former perpetrators to tonight and i like it. now before the socket a defense lawyer claimed that one of the judges had a nazi background and said this was a scandal. is the symbolic going on and. make america heil dr pointing you to support. it was clear to us that the. judicial systems was full of people who had participated in the nazi regime. and that you saw more and more of them as you went up the chain of command you. better not make them up. but the claims were unfounded apprenticing was never a nazi judge in fact prince in convicted several defendants on charges of war crimes including those involved in the massacre of a number of polish academics and their families in laval of one thousand nine hundred forty one so printing actually worked to bring former nazis to justice. and if i wasn't aware of his previous rulings. in the first year of the trial alone the lawyers filed forty five complaints of bias against judge printing others criticised

the third of october is the day when east and west germany were reunited and yet something is different this year. or the great wall across the country is gone. but on election day it became clear they were the walls less visible without why and it strips. walls that stand in the way of that collective sense. in my view. in vegas when i'm talking about the walls of alienation disappointment or anger. and i know you feel when people say i feel foreign in my own country and in the now i cannot simply be the times of change when people say i don't understand my country any more than there is a need to act in germany. germany commemorated reunification on tuesday but how united is the country really just two weeks ago a far right party secured a spot in the german parliament on a ticket of xenophobia now the german president. is warning of new walls going up in people's minds twenty seven years since the physical wall between east and west went down now he made the comment in a speech during an event commemorating german unity day which saw the country's leaders gather in the southwestern c

germany have this week been marking unitity day, commemorates the coming together of east and west germany and the fall of the iron neaearly three dedecades ago. but the recent national eleleion here h has put the far right f for germany party in the bunundestag for the very fit time and triggered talk of a those old east-west divisions. europe, once united by the tearing down of the iron curtain, is again putting up fences.d our question on quadriga this week, after the election divided divided europe, and to discuss that question, i'm by wojciech szymanski, who is with the polish service of dw. he believes it is a mixture of socioeconomic and cultural pushes people towards far right populist parties, both in eastern germany and in eastern yao. also with us is judy dempsey, the carnegie with europe think tank. judy says there are all kinds of divisions through europe and they're becoming deeper and more spain,, but compared to britain and poland, germany still seems to be a haven of stability. and a warm welcome too to anja reich, chief correspondent of the berliner zeitung newspaper. anj

west germany is best amateur players who would like more dangerous on board called paul who is looking a little worried but he's no need to his team are still back on the attack and they have one chance after the end of. the funding apart and other foreign based coaches by the german government has also been part of a wider mission strengthening diplomatic relations with developing world nations african teams profited from the coaching and from on the pitch encounters with german footballing legends such as the blondes number eight darren munich's an s. . oh no but my needs that you can move the ball on is good for one or. among papa's other major postings was egypt he's been credited for making a significant contribution to the country's footballing evolution in the one nine hundred seventy s. today egypt is among the leading powers in the african game. book a popular figure not ego should be the one to know. it's become so full of the shots and continent. in italy and you. leave all feeding off both the good dish and that's when the emotional fun for. that we've been always came up a

you can't as a national side all nonprofessionals played against west germany best amateur players who like more dangerous and parker is looking a little worried but he has no need to. go on the attack and they have one chance after the end of. the funding of parker and other foreign based coaches by the german government has also been part of a wider mission strengthening diplomatic relations with developing world nations african teams profited from the coaching and from on the pitch encounters with german footballing legends such as the blondes number eight darren munich's bleakness. oh no my son. and there was one movie was that one or. among pappas other major postings was egypt he's being credited for making a significant contribution to the country's footballing evolution in the one nine hundred seventy s. today egypt is among the leading powers in the african game. book a popular figure not to go should be the one to know. and it's become so far off the charts in continent. in italy and you're used to diplomacy partly about feeding off both their good dish and that's a nominal f

west germany in the autumn of nine hundred seventy seven. three members of the red army faction have been sentenced to not behind. the judge's ruling and stomach high prison trickett await the final stop time dummy faction on trial in forty five minutes on t.w. . meet the germans new and surprising aspects of noise and culture in germany. us american music takes a look at germany it is increasing use of their traditions every day lives and language doesn't just come out of. so i'm young good. looking guy r t w dot com the germans. because the way they start to divide the country i do get to where they start to divide the language your blood will flow for gold. ninety nine days of the soviet union is breaking heart of. the members of the russian federation would have to find their own way politically and economically well so it was an incredibly difficult task that most of us have fun with this democracy was a lie this is the lections where frauds that's the privatization was robbery. of from the soviet union's heritage where does russia stan

germany have this week been marking unity day which commemorates the coming together of east and west germany and the full of the iron curtain nearly three decades ago but the recent national election here has put the far right alternative for germany party in the bundestag for the very first time and triggered talk of a return to those old east west divisions meanwhile europe once united by the tearing down of the iron curtain is again putting up walls and fences a question on quadriga this week after the election divided germany divided europe and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by wojciech shimon ski who is with the polish service of the w. he believes it is a mixture of socio economic and cultural factors that pushes people towards far right populist parties both in eastern germany and in eastern europe also with us is judy dempsey senior fellow with the carnegie europe think tank also a blogger and author judy says there are all kinds of divisions through your. and they're becoming deeper and more complex but compared to spain britain and poland germany still seems

no doubt there are very few people in the wine growing town of eating an in south west germany who don't believe this. submarine about from the local tourism office even found an old guidebook in her book shelf entitled the wine dr it dated back to seven hundred fifty three. when you know. you know. hildegard stigler helps decipher the old fashioned german writing she discovers recipes to treat colds and improve memory. and. then of course all the cures contain one thing wine. divine for the skittishness. this is. it contains alcohol and carbon dioxide there are lots of things in wine that we like and that stimulate us. that's why we have such good conversations when we've had some wine. women i'm not kidding because if you get a cold or you notice you're coming down with one before you've developed a temperature you can preempt it with red wine you have a glass of red wine in the evening you wrap it nice and warm and then you go straight to bed that way you won't get sick but you have to catch it at the right moment to moment and. revisit the people of iran going take these tips with a

thomas hopko was one of the best photojournalists in west germany bill hart was is germany's legendary photojournalist here ed camera was a gallery his view of the twentieth century socialist world is on display snapshots that shape our memories of global history. charles. thomas bernard you and thomas have to belong to the same generation how much freedom to travel as a photojournalist in east germany. the the fire plan the super freedom wasn't limitless as you know i'll give you an example. from this book or visited me at my studio in berlin in the one nine hundred eighty s. . i was so pleased because he was this great photographer for whom i had the highest respect he came in and i knew that the stars and the secret police were standing outside because they don't let a western reporter for stone magazine out of their sight for a minute. i wanted to buy pictures but i couldn't sell them to him to stand up for what they wanted pictures in which east germany didn't look so great so i had to throw the car out and he didn't know why and i couldn't tell him he phoned me up to home. to do

task to bring them together and finally on october twenty seven years ago east germany joined west germany a lot of positive developments since then but of course lots of lots of problems as well let's talk about one of those problems because we heard the german president speaking a little bit more about that today he in fact described invisible walls new barriers in people's minds just how polarized is german society right now it is definitely polarized it's not as polarized as the united states i would say but there is divide and divide between the political left between the political right old and young rural areas and cities but also still between the east and the west and not just economically the east is still behind the west in many ways but the german president was referring to these invisible barriers that are grave of mistrust and anger of some in the east also towards the west and we could see that in the election results just a short while ago nationally be if t. the far right newcomers to german parliament they scored twelve point six percent but in the east the result was muc

but west germany would never be the same again the question of how to handle terrorism was here to stay and probably the most important question is how do we continue to find the right balance between freedom and security under these changing circumstances. a discussion that looks set to remain on the agenda in germany as in many parts of the world. it is time now for sports news and in football by our host celtic in the champions league tonight the bavarian seem to be in crisis just a few weeks ago but the return of the club legend and coach your guests has studied the ship and now they are looking to push on with a win against the scottish champions. you know pint this has only been back at buy in for one game but already it feels like things have returned to normal the team trained ahead of the celtic match fresh from thrashing freiburg at the weekend. five goals including this cheeky back heel from your shoe it came in and should have successful stunts are high and is his latest spell in munich now the coach is urging his players to keep up the good work. on this issue so the player

october thirteenth one thousand nine hundred seventy seven west germany watched the actions of leftwing terrorist group the red army faction in horror weeks earlier the r.a.f. had kidnapped business executive hans. hoping to blackmail the government into trading his release for terrorists and last bada and gudrun and slain. on that october day they received some assistance a four person palestinian commando two women and two men hijacked a live tons of passenger plane called the luns huet their demand the release of eleven arre of terrorist imprisoned in west germany for the eighty hostages a five day odyssey began their journey including to rome monaco dubai and aden. in south yemen the hostage takers shot lufthansa pilot. the last stop on the horror trip was the mogadishu airport in somalia no other country in the world would allow the hijacked plane to land then west german chancellor helmut schmidt was forced to make the most difficult decision of his political career west germany refused to cave in to blackmail how many people would have to pay for this with their lives at that poi

forty seven who included former very soldiers with setting the new literary agenda in post-war west germanyay man had hoped for understanding but he found division instead. he met in the book man again she had suggested he come she had wanted to help him but it was a fiasco. for sale on writing was a way of remembering the dead death few was a kind of tombstone for his mother. and now it was being mocked. so. black and daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night and we drink and we drink it we talk a great in the breezes that i want to rise unconfined. so lucky milk of daybreak we drink what night we drink he would have known death is a master from germany we drink you would sun down and in the morning we drink and we drink you death is a monster from germany his eyes are blue he strikes you with a letter and bullets his ai is true. you know. the members of the group forty seven prided themselves on their hard radical judgments but salon was struck by an act of particular heartlessness later he said i had. hope some of the writers would descend in

west germany society had been politicized in a way we hadn't seen for a very long time it was mobilized it was galvanized into action and it was no bad thing that this be ok this is i'm going to go and in the eighty's again there was a great deal of intensity there i was in the governing coalition for example when the whole nato debates were happening and then seven years after that the war fell short change was on the order of was the order of the day. throughout my career and hindsight is a wonderful thing and you evaluate things quite differently after the fact. but because i know from my own xperience that these. feelings of crisis and how spirit and everyone getting upset is par for the course which is why i look with a sense of calmness at the disputes that we are going to have in parliament that we must have in parliament as representatives of the society that elected us because it's not just the case that we need to relight. represent society in its basic consensus but also in all its diversity and we mustn't play one thing off against the other. democratic society there is no i

right now immediately people crossed the border on light line and the division between east and west germany began to dissolve official reunification followed on october third the following year one thousand nine hundred. yet nearly three decades later many differences between east and west remain. most of germany's largest firms and most jobs are in one. germany the official unemployment rate is consistently higher in the east. salaries are also as much as a third lower than in former west germany. just ten percent of women with children work full time in the former west in the former east that figure is over one third . the feeling of being left behind by reunification and disoriented in germany's diverse society are some of the reasons for xenophobic attacks and the rise of the far right alternative for germany party which has its strongholds in the former east even so while the economy in germany's former east is starting from a lower base it's currently growing faster than in the west. and tourism in the east is breaking its own records berlin has become a huge tourist magnet not least

the third of october the day on which we danced and west became one in germany. yeah it was empty yet this year it is a little different. not just begin man whom i quoted at the beginning of my remarks but many other things are looking at the inner unity country with questions with concerns and with uncertainty thus. it is one side of today and it is one that we feel strongly this year obvious keep going on but there is another side as well and i see that side collected here in this room and young people and students from schools and sixteen federal state you are particularly welcome here today was. the. charter boats and i know german unity day. you will be asking why just once a year. german unity is every day from and three hundred sixty five days a year since twenty seven years now and you have never known it any other way and jetman an entire young generation full of life. has been born and grown up in a unified germany has been born and grown up in a unified germany. you young people the future of this country belongs to you you cannot leave that generation

that there are still invisible beriah that there is an invisible burden wall between east and west germany and the german president he was referring to a wall of mistrust and and anger and you saw that in the election results the far right a d paci the newcomers to german problem and nationally they got twelve point six percent of the vote but if you look at the numbers in east germany was much higher and in one state in particular and saxony that even came out of the strongest party so passing the established party in that's in that state and that is something pretty amazing and it shows how great of a frustration there still is in east germany that some people some voters there feel left behind after so many years of german reunification to give you charlotte parts a short while ago barcelona is the scene of a massive demonstration at this hour as supporters of cattle separatism protest against police violence at last weekend's independence vote amid this strife spain's king felipe has addressed the nation he is doing so now alive he is saying the cap's line leaders have acted it was spo

still to come there was a huge economic gulf between east and west germany when the country reunited in one thousand nine hundred so what is the situation almost three decades later. that story and much more coming right up with your head in business. so we have you know whether you know don't get up i think we're still. around freely this is a television live i just want to get up and walk away as if. the stadium was sold it was a really special event remember all my life everybody have a dream. and you don't need to shout your brains out when you see what you will know things are going well we can still win it.

the third of october is the day when east and west germany were reunited and yet something is different this year. or the great and all across our country is gone. but on election day it became clear they were the war less visible without why and did strips. that stand in the way of that collective sense. in my view. in vegas. about the walls of alienation disappointment or anger. then i know the feeling when people say i feel foreign in my own country and the answer cannot simply be that times have changed when people say i don't understand my country any more than there is a need to act in germany. germany commemorated reunification on tuesday but how united is the country really just two weeks ago a far right party secured a spot in the german parliament on a ticket of xena phobia now the german president franco is warning of new walls going up in people's minds twenty seven years since the physical wall between east and west went down now he made the comment in a speech during an event commemorating german unity day which saw the country's leaders gather in the southwestern city of

right right and that has to do with the fact that the candidate nominated by the alternative for germany and west . has been basically rejected by all other parties the vote is underway to still unclear whether he will get that majority but it certainly doesn't look like that i was listening to what some of the other members of parliament were saying before session about this issue and they were saying that obviously the a.f.d. as a party that has been elected to parliament obviously has the right to nominate a candidate but that the other parties do not necessarily believe that this person is the ideal candidate for that and that's probably the reason why they're going to be rejected but it's still unclear whether the f.t. would stick to albert even if he were rejected or whether they would decide to nominate someone else dr thomas for the voting is still going on for the post of vice president as you saying is expected to be controversial we come back to you later of course once the result is there frank you very much for now and jefferson she's in the studio thank you very much for your assess

west germany would never be the same again the question of how to handle terrorism was here to stay. and probably the most important question is how do we continue to find the right balance between freedom and security under these changing circumstances that's a discussion that looks set to remain on the agenda in germany as in many other parts of the world. it is time now for culture news with our very own karen stott and today we're looking at the german history museum here in berlin because it has a new exhibition on the events of the one nine hundred seventeen russian revolution which led to the formation of the soviet union of course those events at the time they had a profound influence actually there after all throughout the twentieth century and you know that of course then begs the question karen how did they fit all of that into this one exhibition a very tumultuous time when no exhibition could possibly be exhaustive on this subject sara so and as you know an extremely sensitive subject as well so one can also say almost say that they're incredibly brave to take it on this