Thread:Uli64/@comment-32384228-20171004205717/@comment-31627407-20171006141143

Thank you so much Mitzi for sharing these private things. Reading it again and again, creating a virtual movie in my mind. For one it's a simple page in a history book, for others it's part of their life. Sometimes hard for me to find the right words. I have a few days less life experience than you; my parents and grandparents always tried to avoid speaking about the past, and even as I wanted to learn about those times, having been a young boy, later on I understood them.

Back to the nearer past - indeed seeing Brandenburger Tor from both sides is very special. One day when I will have the opportunity going to Berlin again I will definitely walk through.

Oh yes, leaving East Germany is/was really a separate story. When we tell our kids today about 1961 to 1989 they can hardly believe it.