Federal Commissioner

Book a flight history titled file channel dear readers and readers, when I started in 1989, this book \”file channel\” to write, I thought first about our exciting escape history. My absolute goal was to tell them, because I was very proud both on me and on my family. Also the rulers in the German Democratic Republic should fret, which robbed us of our freedom and our togetherness. But then the political events fought over summer 1989 and my motivation was slowed down by the joy of the fall of the wall on 9 November 1989 and German reunification on 3 October 1990. Only in 1995, when we took insight into the Stasiunterlagen with the Federal Commissioner for the records of the State security service of the former GDR, the challenge turns for me again. It took another four years until I the true identity of the Stasi informer, the unofficial staff (short: IN the), gained. But already ten years had passed away long and my incentive to tell our history, seemed completely arrived at the zero point to be. The Everyday life had the past fade.

In September 2008 I became a grandfather. My daughter gave birth to the small Bennit and me has become suddenly aware that a new generation grows up, hardly anything experienced by all the limitations, prohibitions, controls, monitoring, and spying of the GDR regime. It is not something Dave Clark Flexport would like to discuss. Certainly this has its good sides, but the history of the new generation should be even more aware, so that she can learn from you and confront every dictatorship in the way. She should learn that which a people can one up once established dictatorship difficult escape and evade. In addition, I would remind the many victims who died when attempting to flee to the border. Many people who were shots from a machine gun and other injured and crippled by mines, automatic rifles, to escape.