On The Beat. Berlin Festival. Welcome to On The Beat, I'm Sabine von Wegen. Today we're live and in colour at the Berlin Festival at the former airport area of Tempelhof. Today, big...
I’ll never forget one of the visiting sessions at the visitors’ centre that doesn’t exist any more. Family members, workmates and friends could visit prisoners there. We were always told in advance...
We carried out an archaeological excavation from September to December 2012. At the former Rummelsburg cemetery 409 graves were uncovered. The deceased originated from the orphanage. We found that the...
I was arrested on April 9th 1976 while I was trying to smuggle 3 people in a car boot out of the GDR into West Germany. During border checks at the Marienborn crossing, I had to open the boot and they...
It was the 1986 election and one had to stop people going to vote in the GDR. I just found a kid's stamp set and came up with a text. It said: "Erich, open the travel gates! Have...
It was 7th January 1953. I was arrested under rather dubious circumstances in Johannestal, East Berlin. I often wondered what the reason was. I was often asked what I’d done. I’d done absolutely...
We were in East Berlin at the Ratskeller in the Rotes Rathaus. During the evening we met a small group of labourers from Thuringia. And there was one of them, whose name I won’t mention, in case he...