Think catchin the no 6 time World Champion Lewis Hamilton has one more title from doing just that. Thats all the news for this hour but dont go anywhere up next here on details he was a documentary on the development of freedom and postwar germany and of course you can always get all the latest news information anywhere you are around the clock at our website dot com and be sure to follow us on twitter at e w news thanks very much. Welcome to the book is the game here. We have plenty to talk about in. This country. 3 more. Little we have. Lets have a look at some of the other legal so you dont want to. T. W. I mean kite height unity justice and above all Freedom Freedom the state is duty bound to protect. My height. Kind of an in phrase him can only unfold you know when people lift diet. When they appreciate it you know as you want to protect it. They can use if i hadnt learned. It was you not doing. Golf he came
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and sent to a prison in corpus but then his fate took a happier turn the so-called halflings fikile for prisoners ransom saw west germany buying the freedom of east german prisoners in exchange for cash or goods. by 989 over 33000 political prisoners were bought free by west germany paid a corpse freedom cost at least 40000 door to mars in some east germany aren t an additional 3400000000 dollars your marks by selling prisoners. it was essential informal inner german human trafficking in which the western concession to freedom helped prop up the eastern government. to do what is east germany participated in this welcome human trafficking enterprise because it needed money it was sheer economic desperation to the small defs but on a social a top priority was to earn money giving in to pressures of humanity it was only
political center proved too weak to intervene they had too little backing from society. the nazis on the other hand did find support when hitler seized power nobody stood in his way as dictator he robbed 1st germany then europe of its freedom with devastating consequences. after germany was defeated the victorious allied powers divided the country into 4 occupation zones the french american and british films to the west. and soviet russia in the east. in 1909 the 4 occupied zones became 2 german states based on 2 different notions of democracy and freedom. the federal republic in the west was founded on the basis of the basic law a constitution designed to protect civil liberties and to prevent
and its editors. or a new quest with what i had come as kind of the most good without a free press there can be no democracy when d. my rhythm of the press and freedom of expression in general including freedom of assembly are the cornerstones of democracy ornstein the democrat tea or invent. golden name and if citizens are no longer permitted to know the facts office origin night alternative interpretations of the facts ma am it can that undermines the foundations of democracy fundamental democrat teves over to. the spiegel affair show how west germany s basic law was able to keep state authority in check. and in east germany. east germany called itself the german democratic republic or g.d.r. . in this case however democracy referred not to the freedom of the individual but
again be allowed to arise. for many seeking greater freedom that meant there was only one option left leave $953.00 saw the peak of east german migration to the west by $961.00 a total of 2700000 people had fled the country well over a 10th of the population. the exodus was put to an abrupt end with the construction of the wall in 1961 with that the final weak point in the inner german border had been fortified east germany resembled an open air prison an entire population walled in attempting to flee now meant risking your life and i was i would prefer to call they built a wall and imprison their own people for she said she they called it an anti fascist protection barrier and claimed the threat emanating from the west while their guns were trained on people wanting to move from east to west from us in the investigation but as of this it was a blatant lie. but one that for