Anders and I have been sick for three days now which has been a drag as Rosanna is now with us and I don't feel inclined to do anything adventurous, but on the positive side I've been able to finish reading Hans Fallada's "Every Man Dies Alone". The story is based on true events about a couple who choose to defy the third reich by depositing postcards with anti-nazi sentiments randomly about Berlin. All the characters introduced are connected directly or indirectly with this couple and Fallada's insight into the machinations of the gestapo as well as his particular view of humanity under oppression drew me in and gave me a better understanding of how the german populace fell in line with the policies of the third reich so thoroughly. Following that, we watched a documentary on the rise of the wall and it's eventual fall in 1989 which was good as an overview, but not very detailed. However, it did help to consolidate my view that the oppression of Fallada's time quite easily links with the oppression of the soviet run ddr, and how something as drastic as the wall could only have happened without opposition from the german populace due to the lack of recovery time from the culture of fear during the war years to the culture of fear in the cold war years.
Unglaublich!
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