Gesine Kühne

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203 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2024 last heard 10 Jul

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And so he knew he always had this file and he couldn't move as he wanted to because... He doesn't complain about there being a lemonade deficit.

Exactly.

And we've been followed when we're driving around with the car.

We've been followed by the Stasi all the time.

And my parents always looked to the backseat and said to me, okay, when we arrive now, you're going to be sick again.

You have to act sick.

So I've been like holding my stomach and acting all sick and so on.

So we got, I don't know, a couple more weeks in the GDR.

So mom could finish up whatever she had to finish up.

And then we left.

But the day you leave, they cut your passport and you're not a citizen of anywhere.

Like you don't have a passport.

You don't have an identity anymore, pretty much.

And the good thing was us being Germans, when we went to West Berlin, you're instantly a German citizen.

So that was kind of good.

46 or 40 years later, actually, wow.

I have to deal with that a lot.

I'm actually trying to work through things because we're ripped out of our environment and now slowly realizing how much harm it actually did.

So this is part of the wall, which is like now a monument, East Side Gallery, with lots of different paintings along the wall.

This would have been the death strip because then the canal was also part of the wall or of the no-go area.

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