Part 125: A Family Reunion What happened next is difficult to describe. East and West Berliners were in each other’s arms.
Part 124: The Fall Of The Berlin Wall I did not allow myself to be beaten up by the police in front of the Nikolaikirche on Mondays, nor did I join the big protest march to shout ‘No violence!’ particularly forcefully in front of the ‘Runde Ecke’ (the seat of Leipzig’s Stasi headquarters).
Part 123: A Nation Transformed In the fall of 1989, political tensions reached their peak in almost all of the GDR’s major cities.
Part 121: A Military Exercise It had become autumn. Like every year at this time, the battlegroup battalion ‘Friedrich Engels,’ to which my hundred-man squad belonged, blew for the year-end maneuver.
Part 120: A New Addition To The Family Because of our constant preoccupation with Julia and the presence of the neighbor’s children, Chris and I never had the feeling that our marriage was childless.
Part 119: A Family’s Life We camped far in the south of Bulgaria in a sea bay near the Turkish-Greek border.
Part 118: Road Trip Through Romania The tent equipment and all travel utensils in the trunk and in the trailer well stowed, the surfboard including mast and boom on the roof rack, so we started with four good mood in the summer of 1985 in the direction of Bulgaria.
Part 117: Vacation arrangements My work as department head HAG (main client) for building repairs slowly but surely began to wear me down, and my employees did not fare any better.
Part 116: A Wedding To Remember Very humbly and quietly, Chris and I wanted to say ‘I do’ for life. A small celebration in the circle of the family, which was the plan.
