Summary
In the second part of our series, Jenny Laue, who was born and grew up in East Berlin, speaks to her family about how they felt when their world was changed for ever
ON THE Western side of the Berlin Wall on the day they came to smash it down on November 9, 1989, there was jubilation. It was the end of division and it meant freedom for all those poor souls who had had to endure life on the other side. It was a great day. Wasn't it?See the full content of this document
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The View From the East
Well, not necessarily. On the Eastern side of the Wall there were those who were happy to have been "liberated", but just as many of us feared terribly for our futures.
I was born in East Berlin in 1976 and I had just turned 14 when the ...See the full content of this document
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