The fall of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago came amidst sweeping changes that would end the cold war and see the downfall of authoritarian communist regimes across the street the 3 decades on the prodemocracy optimism of those days has turned south replaced by rising seas and the soviet and populist nationalism countries once helped me one day i heard so what went wrong in the 1st of 2 special reports weve been to germany to find out. The burly in wall was the most potent symbol of the division between east and west jordan the cold war. Its demise towards the end of 1909 brought hope to millions not in the germany but throughout the world. To avoid inspired leaves a void thats here for us and not but 30 years on things havent turned out quite as expected. Fascism and racism have come back with a vengeance it seems that you know for weeks at tools are always there. People just didnt dare to express them the rise of germanys far right has been marked by hate crime and even politically motivated assassinations this is a big challenge for democracy because germany is a place where we thought that never could happen again. India as a matter for the world war 2 germany like the continent of europe was divided by the victors between puppet dictatorships under the communist yoke and western leaning democracies. Berland soon became the epicenter of the cold war also divided between the free world and communism. A city of intrigue and espionage in the heart of east germany the known as the german democratic republic or g. D. R. Left in the socalled german democratic republic was life in a dictatorship that means from the cradle to the grave life was organized and data mined by the state. As the harsh reality of life under the communists sank in more and more east berlin is headed west to stop this exodus the east german dictatorship began constructing the burden wall. Families were divided lives torn of all. East berlin became a prison but it didnt deter people from trying to escape and many were killed. Osma director was one man he managed to escape east germany and become a west german citizen. Incredibly he returned to east berlin and smuggled people out to the g. D. In the boot of his car. And. There was no mike the microphone the stick the pipe. He was risking his life without my limbs in the game was up there was affordable to. The lot we also heard. Housemates was eventually caught and sentenced to 15 years but at least he survived to tell the tale many didnt. So why did so many people feel it was worth taking the risk. While west germany mated ahead to become the Industrial Power survey europe. Under policy leader Erich Honecker the dictatorship of the g. D. Or became World Leaders in something altogether more sinister mass surveillance. East germanys state security the story where the most insidious secret police in history. This is the stores he archive files were kept on everyone a colossal database to control the population in 989990 when we started our work there was a total of around 111 kilometers of file for photographs thousands of audio and video files and a smaller left over amount of data project what was the study looking for i was looking for your personal expression to lead your life in a way that would ultimately confront the way the party wanted you to live east germany was a military state. As well as a quarter of a 1000000 Russian Troops there were whole familial east german soldiers. But it was the story that people feared most 1000 had about 91000. Staffers official employees and about double the amount 180000 informants. In other words one in every shifty people were looking for dissenters who if cost were incarcerated in a network of prisons but for most people the entire country was a kind of prison. As time progressed the story develops new techniques to deal with troublemakers the strategy of demolition of personality this is the strategy of that song was sort of a silent way of killing people off getting to the bottom of who they were finding out every little detail about what the likes and dislikes a person was and their insecurities and attack them where they are in their personality could be hit and through that trying to destroy the person who wants such a person whos fear of being spoiled who organized prodemocracy protests in the mines you know she was arrested and taken to haunch and hides in the most infamous story prison in the heart of east berlin. Prison was a very special prison because it was isolation and prison and. No prisoner ever saw another prisoner never heard another prisoner never met another prisoner was totally still. And youve been alone in your cell yourself no really windows but. And a very small gap for fresh air saw you said like in a cage. And the only contact you head was to the gator thats why they organized the whole prison as an isolation imprisonment because they have been very good psychologists and they knew a person who was held under conditions not able to meet other human beings not to speak with other numan beings never hear human voices then he will speak with the 1st human being hes able to speak with even if it is the. Other methods of persuasion and punishment were less subtle. This is the basement section of hunching has been known as the. Well water torture was deployed. To break langs felled the authorities expelled her from her homeland on one level links fault was lucky she was able to keep her children but under a policy introduced by more gold hanukah Education Minister and wife of the east german dictator erik hanukah the state routinely took children from politically undesirable parents. Incognito unobscured its why allison does this. Dress lack who is called while trying to escape with his pregnant wife and was jailed. When his wife gave birth the child was taken for a forced adoption. It took like 29 years to find his son. Other parents have also tracked down the children but its impossible to make a time when he often in high mention any less money. Or take him on a honda a bus to make is contingent on your couldnt clean. Continue searching on behalf of others his Organization Called stolen children has more than 7800 members not 30600. And its in the middle. The stolen children are perhaps the most poignant chapter in the 45 years story of the g. D. Small wonder people greeted the fall of the berlin wall with euphoria. But things didnt pan out quite as expected. While the hanukkahs escaped justice in south america on exorbitant state pensions the vast majority of east germans were in for a nasty culture shock. Mentally tate and also the best they could invest in any best spin on the orient and i may have a car and laws the only. Ones there is of it on your own. And i have always been on the sick these are quick to wonder what on. Things began to fall to the own within months the east german mall chris replaced by the west german mark nearly 17000000 east germans had just 6 days to convert hard cash to lose it. Unemployment sort and with it and rest. Assured it will send them mention in the. Follow on feel all stored. Food. Unsurprisingly many east germans headed west. Highly qualified engineers or people who have a qualification medical doctors for example could simply by moving to the west without any further problems trickle their salary and that led to an exodus of about 2000000 people. As a consequence even today east germany is littered with coast communities deserted villages and home of empty times. The former Mining Community of over leipsic is typical. Just 15 people who live at. The village was sold last year for 140000. 00 euros. The new owner said he had plans to turn the village into an Inventors Community but the inhabitants are skeptical. That critter. I think. If. There is a feeling for it since reunification these places have simply being left to die. In the vine there is little evidence of the trillion or so euros that toward into the former g. D. R. From its western counterpart which was focused mostly on largest cities. Each year all that you invest in an urban area as about twice the return of each year or that you invest in a royer so if you would think about this from the perspective of the taxpayer that has the farm bill it is clearly a better investment to strengthen the cities rather than try to. Develop something where there is essentially nothing there. But even the urban centers have problems boys for 100 miles south of the is an archetype an east german town made up of soviet era high rise blocks many of which now lie health empty. Its hard to believe it was once a boom time supplying the workforce for the nearby lignite mines has had the highest birth rate in the g. D. R. But 40 percent of its 70000. 00 strong population have left since reunification. Congregations of the towns church all but dried up. Enough the end of the pollen count us to leave 1000000000 hours or and when i saw. You know steve you know when his replacement upon color or dimension must mean the hobbit of the best scene. In my head for venus to create this now spoken these are cunts for months on. In a blink and on the harm. Nearly there tough more theyre. Opting for the storm in all sports and is out of. The still reverberating aftershocks of this earthquake have led to ground disillusionment with democracy androids ease and a savior imports of eastern germany although less than 20 percent of the population now live the region accounts for more than 50 percent of recorded hate crimes and kind of try to cut off. The ones that noyo or and that about us and all i need orden finished by a long time it would also not interesting since reunification the east german states of saxony into wrong giving birth to oppressor of neo nazi and xenophobia organizations such as patriotic europeans against the islamification of the west known as piggy leader which was founded interest and in 2014. The group initiated what it called evening strolls weekly demonstrations interest and which have sometimes turned 5 and. It seems that stayed on for a week at tools and systematic attitudes were always there. People just didnt dare to express that. You to have led to the situation in which people feel empowered to. Say things that they otherwise 10 years ago would have never said in public. On the way i. Feel ready burgeoning for right received a major boost in the summer of 2015 when the refugee crisis began to affect your. Uniquely among e. U. Leaders german chancellor Angela Merkel took a humane stance allowing roughly a 1000000 refugees into germany. India because thats good off just starts and. A can. Of india is. Perhaps unsurprisingly this policy helped propel the fall run its policy alternatives to germany or 50 into the blunder stalled 2 years ago with a stunning 12. 5 percent of the national verdict. Last october in the region of the directions they did even Better Beyond haka party leader for the state of taronga it took 23 percent. Is the no wonder then you want to get by divide on thoughts but im still im not. Ok it is fond of using terminology like a contentious german would roll them people as hitler did. You speak to. Us. Like. You were. The filth and jim. I think i have a different opinion than mr hecker. I think certainly the migration crisis is a potential danger for our country if we are looking for instance to follow the core focus i think its necessary that you might mention the syncs just to trigger a discussion. Is arguably the most controversial political figure in germany in decades and some of the even make comparisons but i told him youre so fast he is the thing when i think of him its like wow how can people still vote for this party if you see this figure and. They asked threatening via their thought evil like it was the nazi time and thats a kohan is just one of many who see parallels emerging between the rise of the far right smile and what happened in the 1930 s. East germany has struggled to come to terms with its past. This is billions memorial to the murdered jews of europe. In memory of the jewish victims of the holocaust built 60 years after the 2nd world war. 2 words absent from the memorials title holocaust and share so no reference is made to germany or the 3rd reich and a mission which some people find curious. Nonetheless its an impressive structure covering some 4. 00 acres just south of the brandenburg gate. Called Holocaust Memorial that we have a. Memorial of shame but not in terms of the shame of all his. 3 but in terms of the shame that it exists it should be there he called for revolution of our common ration practice off 180. 00 degrees which in our terms its. Nonsense because also you can try to round. Degrees its still the holocaust. Further belongs to the os collective political beauty with its trademark camouflage face paint. The group which lampoons racists took issue with hookers comments even said hitler is not just black and white. Hes not just evil basically philip and his colleagues decided to reconstruct a miniature whole course memorial in hookahs village to constantly remind the politicians of what hitler did ok as house overlooks the memorial. We thought that our obligation is somehow not just to have morals in the center like it but also that we moreas have to go where its urgent and indeed the situation is urgent in october 2019 the east german city of harlow was person to look after a double murder outside a synagogue the latest hate crime committed by near nazis eventually course for far right extremist awaits trial we were not surprised at all it was a howler theres a big center of neo nazi activity. And there are a lot of people and very radicalized people so. It was not right with just chucking. Despite rising tensions and increasing anti semitism there was made Police Protection at the synagogue many observers have drawn a link between these racist attacks and these rhetoric. Accuse ations the party denies this is a technique by the other parties chest everything which is happening and you can say right i mean yeah then they are trying to put us did to do to bring it in connection with the f. T. In the time of course for her killings particularly worrying. For murder is just one of several east german politicians whove received Death Threats from for writing stream ists at the. Time didnt. You know have fun as if you live. Comms and you were just normal im awesome gun play. With the tensions rising in the time following a number of incidents involving refugees appealed for calm then he began to receive threatening emails. Saying he should die in a familiar though the sender of the death threat was caught the police then released him citing freedom of expression. In june 2900 luke a prominent politician in the state of hesse. Perceived as too pro refugee he was shot in the head by a neo nazi loop had also received Death Threats. According to germanys foreign minister hike a mass there are 12000 dangerous near nazis in the country against this backdrop the f. T. Goes from strength to strength and the after is the 2nd Strongest Party in the east and the 3rd Strongest Party on National Level of all parties in germany what more do we need to see that our strategy is wrong the strategy is 100 percent appeasement policy and then we need something completely different. Perhaps even more worrying is the fact that germany is in many ways a microcosm for the region. As we will discover in the next episode these problems are being repeated elsewhere in Eastern Europe and on a bigger scale. 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall whole regions have become abandoned got up on the ballot a billionth of a 3rd if you dont tell a double step you will get out. More and that blair well what are the net nuts out there that john. Fund rable minorities find themselves under attack from nationalist governments this is the kind of extremist racist sentiment that we didnt see in this country for many many years and perhaps most shocking of all many of those guilty of hate crimes during communism have continued to prosper they transform from the social democrats and they said now everything is ok we have democracy but in fact it was just the fake democracy. The hope and optimism that greeted the fall. The berlin wall a time when anything looks possible now seems like a lost opportunity as the continent veers into an uncertain and dangerous future. 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