30 years after the wall came down, Germany is dividing again
Many in the east of Berlin feel their government is too quick to help out foreigners or the rich while they are being left behind
10 November 2019 - 07:42
Berlin — Diana Lehman was six when the wall came down. A month or so later, she remembers, her parents drove the family to Bavaria in their East German-built Trabant to try out this strange new freedom they’d been handed.
With $50 each of “welcome money” from the West German government to spend, they took her into a toy store. But it was all too much. Back home in the East, she’d have had a choice of a brown stuffed animal or a grey one. Here the range of choices, the bright colours and flashing lights were bewildering. They left with most of the money still in their pockets...
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