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10/28/2009

well i was doing a project in social studies and 1 of my teachers grew up doing that time she was only a child so she does not remember a lot but i still think it is cool

10/09/2006
Cindy Bruce
Battle Creek Mi.

Actually I know nothing about east berlin. I became curious after a strange dream which I cannot repeat in full here, though the thing I found strange was in my dream I hear someone possibly in the government anounce there is going to be a replacement of 3 leaders in berlin and I believe it had something to do with east berlin, so now I am curious about the leaders.

09/06/2005
peter handeland
Gallup.unm.edu>
Gallup, New Mexico

I am a Berliner born 8-30-1944. In terms of loss of life there are three events that I will not forget: Being raised right after World War II in Berlin, the building and the fall of the Berlin wall, Hurricane Katrina. Is there anyone out there who was born and raised during the aftermath of Berlin? I would love to hear from you.

05/24/2005
Peter Handeland
phandeland@Gallup.unm.edu
Gallup, New Mwxico

The comments were wonderful and inspiratioanl. I was born towads the end of WWII in Berlin. It was very frightening and we were so afraid of the Russians. Part of our family lived in East Berlin and we could not go see them. It broke my heart. Years later I went to the wall around Christmas and when I looked across I saw children playing and crying. Need I say more?

05/10/2005
Kristin
kristin_smith90@hotmail.com

This site really helped me do a project for school. Thank you so much. This website deserves so much respect. Thanks!

10/08/2004
Sarah

uk

I came across this site when I was searching for how the East Berliners feel following the fall of the Wall. I am doing a project in German on the effect of the fall of the Berlin Wall for the East. I was wondering how did the East feel? Why they felt unsatisfied? What were their goals and to what extent were they met? and any hopes and disappointments during the years after the Wall came down? Any comments or answers to these questions would be appriciated.

nick hall
njdhall@earthlink.net
New York City

A fascinating and darkly dream-like observation of Berlin's uneasy reconcilliation with its self and its own history, related by people who lived through the city's division and unification. The glib optimism of the shiney new buildings hastily being erected along the former "death strip", subtly undermined by these Berliners' misgivings about the future of a "new Berlin" that refuses to fully acknowledge its past. A really great documentary film that well deserves its recent award.

Dave Nederhood
pastordave@alamedacrc.com
Alameda ca

What a fantastic program! I saw the wall in 1987 with a group from college (we all bought spray paint and made our mark near Checkpoint Charlie) Three years later I returned to that spot with my wife to find nothing but entrepeneurs with their hammers and chisels for rent and their blankets spread on the ground with countless varieties and csizes of wall-chunks embedded in plastic as earrings, paper weights, etc. Each night they would go spray more paint on the remains of the wall because it was considered more valuable!!

I would like to find out how to purchase a copy of this program, or to know if it will be rebroadcast anytime soon

Homestead,FL

I thought that this was one of the finest programs on the subject that I have ever seen. I was amazed at the professionalism and the artistry.

Ontario, Canada

I just saw your production "After The Fall". I found it to be very powerful. As a European raised Canadian I used to live in Europe (NL and CH) until 1978, age of 18, and heard many first hand stories about the DDR (East Germany) and directly observed people and their behaviour from the BRD (West Germany). I cannot believe, and you touched on it in your production, that so many Germans want to just "forget" what happened! How can the Germans as a people! How can we, as a people! We should never forget what happened, so that those who follow after us will not repeat history! I found it very interesting to hear the comment by the former East German woman that the old East Germany was being "colonized" by the West Germans and that two-thirds of former East Germans feel "out of place" with the changes. Never thought about that, but it sounds like something we, as people, have been doing since the beginning of civilization. This does not make it right in our day and age, but yet it still happens! Civilizations and cultures should be respected. - I am not sure if other individuals distant from this can understand what happened/is happening in Germany, and elsewhere in the world.

Toronto, ON

I find this program to be simply amazing artistically and very accurate historically as far as I can tell. The program was a tale from the past but with a powerful forward looking angle.

Norma-Jean Papritz
amrondeez1@msn.com
Corona, California

What a well done program. I was at the wall in 1991 with my two adult children. We brought back pieces being sold at Checkpoint Charlie. As we enterred East Berlin we were impressed at the darkness of that part of the city. There was no color. I could recognize nothing of what I saw in 1991 in your film. Progress must take place that is true but to obliterate one's past is very sad indeed.

Paul M.
kc5jk@netzero.net

"After The Fall" gave most of us the only pictures of Berlin we have seen since the war. It looks like an amusement park in the middle of a giant construction zone.

In closing, the narrator did a good job of making the wall look like a product solely of Berliners themselves, bickering for no reason and who just as unexplainably came back to their senses after fifty years. This vindicated the outsiders who imposed that division and enduring punishment upon those people for so long, a nice job of "history in the rewriting."

Nicky Swayne
N2Swaynes@aol.com
Central Texas, USA

Thank you thank you thank you !!! I have been wondering for the last 10 years how the East Germans feel now, and what they are thinking about essentially being made into West Germans, how they view the lives they led in the years of separation; how they are dealing with their "new lives",...... especially powerful was the woman who regrets that all traces of "things" such as monuments that depict communism and her former every day life are being removed. The two Germanies did not merge, rather East Germany was changed into another part of West Germany.

Thank you also for sub-titeling it, and not dubbing it. For folks not understanding German, I don't think it's too much to ask to read.

I am German and moved when I was 22 with my American husband from Germany to the United States in the fall of 1988. I had not been born when the wall went up, and moved from Germany right before it came down. Growing up I had been reading about all the east Germans who fled across, over, and under the wall, sometimes losing their lives. Thanks for answering some of my questions, they just aren't answered in any detail anywhere in the US print media. Thanks for giving me real and speaking people to look at.

Natasha Thiele
nthiele@hotmail.com
Adelaide-SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Greetings from Australia. Your documentary sounds quite interesting. I was wondering if this film would be a vital source for my major study in Year 12 History. I must research a particular topic, which in this case "The Berlin Wall" and if possible, compare it to a film based on the topic. I must devise a hypothesis and form an essay answering my hypothesis. For example hypothesis' such as these: How useful is the film AFTER THE FALL in providing historical insights into the period of the BERLIN WALL that separated East and West Germany? //OR// How accurately does the film AFTER THE FALL portray what life was like between East and West Berlin before the breaking of the Berlin Wall?

I would appreciate any information or ideas you might have for this important study I must complete.

Yours truly,
Natasha

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