Shoot demonstrators. Now the secret the leadership tells the secret miss to do whatever is necessary to make sure an uprising doesnt happen again. In 1960s, a fifth of the population has fled and the regime decide the time has come to do something to stop the hemorrhaging of its labor force. If they dont want to see their country collapse. While the bored between east and west germany is secured in berlin due to the interconnected nature of the city, people are still able to escape into west berlin. But there are rum years in regime plans to some day build a structure, perhaps a wall to permanently separate west berlin from the east, thus cutting off the last hope of escape. So by the envelope 1960s 2,000 east germans a die are fleeing into west berlin. The east german leader tries to quell the surge of escapes by saying, this is a quote no one has any intention of building a wall. But one month later thats exactly what he does. Starts at abashed wire and brick walls a concrete wall with a around top to prevent grasping. Wire mesh, electrical fencing is installed. Trip wires, search lights and a death strip. A 100yard wide gauntve another sand that makes its easy to stop footprints of escapees. This wall seal this country. One year later in 1962, to my grandparents, special hill my grandmas grandpas great days disaopinion; his uncle is ordered to be a border guard at the ball. Between the building of the wall in 1961 and fall of the wall in 1989, almost 150 people would be shot trying to escape. Some 1,000 others killed while trying to cross the period el yes or by drowning in the baltic sea or the river. The berlin wall was clearly built to keep the people in but the east german leadership tells the people the wall is built to keep subversives out. Century very Service Services from from the west out. Some east germens might be fooled, enemies knew exactly why the wall was bet. By now my grandmother built a wall of her own. And even gives its name. Tea the family wall. Just limed to read another expert from the book. The safe haven she had begun to create the day the soviets stepped food in the city to shelter her family from the suffocation of the regime had a name. She declared the family wall a sanctuary, rev fume where the family would preserve their souls by keep thing good in and the bad out. The children followed the lead and the concept took hold. Inside the family wall the children let down their guard. As the fabric of east German Society began to fray and families wonned whether they trust the families, she demanded family trust and out. She inside they fossor the another of the family wall to have any chance against a regime out to crush the spirit of its people. So the cold war rages on. The space race takes off, the Nuclear Arms Race continues, with both he soviet union and the u. S. Building their nuclear arsenals. Major world tensions to communist and democracy against one another, president kennedy and soviet leader khrushchev go head to ahead and khrushchev saying to the west, well bury you. After the wall is built east germanys reputation plummets. They launched a scorch program. The tiny country of east germanys producing extraordinary athletes. The countrys reputation goes up for a while. The world stopping to watch every time an east german shatters a record at world competitions and at the olympics. But the e then its discovered that east germany was doping its top athletes. Grandpa continues to speak up against the regime. Chalked of more black marks and eventually pays the price. Finally denounced, marginal usings from society, kid out of the communist party and banished to a remotary in east germany. Sent for a time ton a insane assay lie assue him. Asylum. The children live lives by following following the rule and lieu tuesday trying preserve their selfdignity and trying to live a life of meaning the. Heidi, the little sister grows and she and her husband do not join the communist party and suffer the consequences, professional lay. The create a secret hideaway with a flower garden, a refuge where they can escape emotionally from the stresses sf society paradise bungalow is a tiny oasis of freedom and life energy and i wont ruin that story for you. Youll have to read that one. You, watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Heres a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country good evening, aberdeen, and thank you all so much for coming out tonight. Im one of the coowners of politics and prose, my husband i right there and we hope by the end of this event you will not be stuck here in a snowstorm. Were pretty confident youll get outside but were delighted have you here. Before we get started i think many of you have been to events here. Just a few housekeeping reminders ump if you have a noisemaking device and can