We live less than an hour from former East Germany.
On a Saturday afternoon field trip to Modlareuth,
we visited Deutsch-Deutsches Museum,
an open air exhibit that shows what was.
Like its big brother Berlin,
a wall divided the town.
East Germans kept in by a wall were even forbidden to wave across the divide.
Histocially land from the village belonged to two provinces, half in the province of Bavaria (West) and the other in Thuringia (East).
For forty years two different German worlds existed.
870 miles long the wall divided Germans from Germans
and it constituted a dividing line between two large military and political power blocks.
The former GDR extended a great financial outlay when it built a system of border barriers.
After an enthusiastic joy over Germany's unity, issues and feelings surfaced quickly that continue to challenge the nation. Physically the wall was gone, however it had provided protection and security for most in some way. Since 1989 a new country is evolving that has never been seen before.
On a Saturday afternoon field trip to Modlareuth,
we visited Deutsch-Deutsches Museum,
an open air exhibit that shows what was.
Like its big brother Berlin,a wall divided the town.
East Germans kept in by a wall were even forbidden to wave across the divide.
Histocially land from the village belonged to two provinces, half in the province of Bavaria (West) and the other in Thuringia (East).
For forty years two different German worlds existed.870 miles long the wall divided Germans from Germans
and it constituted a dividing line between two large military and political power blocks.
The former GDR extended a great financial outlay when it built a system of border barriers.
After an enthusiastic joy over Germany's unity, issues and feelings surfaced quickly that continue to challenge the nation. Physically the wall was gone, however it had provided protection and security for most in some way. Since 1989 a new country is evolving that has never been seen before.
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