IMAGES OF A LOST WORLD; East Germany, Up Close and Personal

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One more interesting article for today...on a trip to Rostock in 1988 I made a side trip to Rügen in hoping to find the Fallschirmjägerbataillon 40, my Intel was flawed, they had moved to Lehnin in 1981. So I was 7 years late.

IMAGES OF A LOST WORLD
East Germany, Up Close and Personal
SPIEGEL ONLINE'

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...619651,00.html
By Karlheinz Jardner

When a West German photographer set off on a trip to the East German island of Rügen just after the Wall fell in the spring of 1990, he captured a world that would soon disappear forever. Twenty years after the epochal event, he looks back on his journey in a first-person account...

See link above for full article

Adapted from an interview conducted by Solveig Grothe for einestages.de, SPIEGEL ONLINE's history portal. Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan.

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I forgot to mention that there are 45 excellent photos on the Spiegel website of everyday life in that were talken on this trip to Rügen.

[Kartofelpreußer]

Fascinating photos... they act as an important reminder that, for all the politicization of society and state-run everything, the DDR was still essentially just millions of folks just trying to live their lives.

[Ingsoc75]

I wonder what photo #10 looks like now.

Thanks for sharing!