A sign of the format in germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz and political scientist lawrence murphy. The elected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. The resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click key words in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 east german families. The footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just People Living their lives despite the dictatorship. And with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you now we hear a lot of people from east germany say yes it was a dictatorship but it wasnt all bad is that part of what this project is trying to show. Its no i would say that we have and this project has not. Anoth
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Private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz political scientist lawrence met fulls the connected 415 hours of home movie rios showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. The resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click the words in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 german families. The footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just People Living their lives despite the dictatorship. And with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you now we hear a lot of people from east germany say yes it was a dictatorship but it wasnt all bad is that part of what this project is trying to show. Its no i would say that we have and this project has not. Another go any different than this is private life they did life in east g