Site Meter

Monday, October 05, 2009

Tales from a Stasi survivors' group

Tales from a Stasi survivors' group

Nearly twenty years after the Berlin wall came down there are some people for whom moving on is not easy at all.



Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall but victims of Communist East Germany's despised Stasi secret police say fighting off history's ghosts is still a daily struggle.

"Not a day goes by without us reliving the past," says Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel, 65, who was jailed for crimes against the state and to this day cannot stand being in a room with the door closed.

1 comment:

Ironside said...

http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.com/2009/09/lenny-harpers-guest-posting.html?commentPage=3

Hi John this is interesting . Apologise for gate crashing your thread.