important. the section the region of the old east germany had a number of uranium mines. in this mood then the operator injected thousands of tonnes of self acid into mine tunnels to leach the uranium from the ore deposits. that acid is still underground and continues to extract uranium from the door. to prevent the groundwater being contaminated the bismo team has to pump the water out of the tunnels day and night. these tanks are then used to filter the uranium out of the mine water. instead of being disposed of through radioactive material is sold. in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. that still amounted to six hundred tonnes a year by two thousand and seventeen the figure was just thirty four tons. with nobody uses it in mobile unfortunately perhaps fortunately the quantities of
of mine say all my books are really about the old east germany i didn t go for a very long time i never wanted to write about it. and i find it hard to do and also very hard to talk about. this of this but i m just now starting to publish texts i have written about that period. i might even write something new about it all the city of india. doesn t fit on the home of us i m better there were it s very odd to experience emotions that are hard to explain in rational terms is a lot. the money. sometimes twenty or thirty years to understand or depict certain things this is. there are so many preconceptions about east germany this is there isn t a style just for the good old days there but also blanket condemnation of the
turning nonvoters and voters so i cannot then complain that they voted the wrong way. there are evidently people who feel ignored by the politicians and don t feel that politics has anything to offer them. not to mention. there is the east west problem that s mention of people in eastern germany feel just a been treated poorly if there s an endless stream of good advice coming from the west with the reproach you are way too obedient to the east german state you know that germany. unified shut up and adapt to our ways that won t work that s what s in it for you my one said the old east germany was a narrow minded racist country. do you still think that s. not. what i said i was that there were racist elements there as well and that xenophobia can flourish among homogenous populations but have no experience of different kinds
a different view of germany and europe our list starts in nineteen zero one with the boarding books by thomas mann and ends with philip think last twenty sixteen novel. if i can how could reading these books change the reader s view of germany or even of europe. and yemen that he s going to get these books provided deep insights into history. but first and foremost they give us insights into humanity and i recommend that best self esteem readers will better understand who the people of central europe are what s their mentality what was their mentality in the past to get to particularly people who shaped history because people know how zico you were born and he s berlin then the former east germany is a big topic in your novels do you think we ll see a similar phenomenon they are not that as the years go by writers will be able to take a more differentiated view on the country s communist past that make good saves some friends of mine say all my books are really about the old east germa
under different to authoritarian regimes syria and the old east germany. when monica schneider was imprisoned here she was also separated from her children. these women might not have a common language but they can still comfort each other. and that s a pretty little head for terrorism and i wish i could change places with my son so that i would be in prison and he would be free. of any city. east germany came to an end. and in one thousand nine hundred ninety with german reunification the files of its secret police have been preserved and people it spied on can read that. if the syrian regime has files on its prisoners it s certainly not about to open them to scrutiny. but i know it s hard to. get it and i often feel completely devastated.