GER403 10/20/2004 June 17, 1953 -- East Berliners protested: 10% increase in working hours higher prices of groceries -- by Spring 1953, almost 30,000 people had left East Germany -- on June 17th they marched throught the Brandenburger Tor -- rioters threw stuff at Soviet tanks and soldiers -- people used to be able to legally travel from East Germany to the West -- in 1953 barbed wire fences were erected to stop traffic -- more than 100 people killed -- "Irgendwann f?llt Jee mauer" -- Strasse des 17. Juni ist in Berlin, durch den Berliner Tiergarten -- Tag der Deutschen Einheit waren 17. Juni aber jetzt ist 3. Oktober nach der Wiedervereinigung. The TV tower is called the Revenge of the Pope because it casts a shadow of a cross. The chancellery office is called the washing machine. Back to Leonhard: -- bulletins (SBZ) came from Yugoslavia about their position against the Stalinistic position -- people were upset by Leonhard but he wasn't arrested; he was put on a kind of probation -- the people were surprised that he, having been educated in the Soviet Union, could have doubts -- S. 186 Z 17: he had to win time in order to come up with a strategy to escape to Yugoslavia -- he had to win back the trust of the party -- the party sent his case to the Polib?ro in Moscow so he got a few days in which to flee Brecht wrote a poem called Die L?sung after 17. Juni 1953 -- he used the same words; outstanding efforts on the part of the workers in order to regain the trust of the party -- wouldn't it be easier just to dissolve the population and elect a new one Leonhard's flight: -- he went illegally to Podmokly in Czechoslovakia (called Bodenbach auf Deutsch) -- he waited at the train station in Bodenbach but his acquaintance never came -- he decided to go to Prague; he couldn't speak Czech but they understood Russian -- he got to Prague late in the evening and went to the address he had; no answer; he couldn't go to a hotel without proper documents; he couldn't stay on the street without paper -- he went to the train station, saw police checking papers, went to the restroom, went to a railroad clerk and said he was sick from drinking; he talks to some middle aged man who asks him where he's from and where he's going; Leonhard is honest; the man takes him to a friend who helped him -- Leonhard meets his acquaintance in the morning; they'd passed each other in Bodenbach and Prag -- Leonhard didn't get to Jugoslawien until 25. M?rz (his flight took 13 days) -- when Leonhard wrote all this he only named the places because he didn't want to endanger the people who had helped him Back to Leonhard video: Frage 16: -- die imkompetente F?hrung -- Widerspruche -- Planungssystem war ein Problem; zerst?rt Wirtschaft -- Privilgen der Function?re gesehen -- reason for the end of the DDR -- Revolution von Unten Frage 17: Verkalt (Calcified) was the f?hrung -- all these old faithful party members were leaders of the USSR one after another Frage 18: -- something about people from his school from the 30s -- Marcus Wolf -- Peter Florien -- Paul Wandel -- talking to them was rather casual (about free time, vacations) not about politics or their jobs during the Diktatur; einsilbig Antworte to such questions -- ?? Fehler gesehen hatten -- they saw their mistakes but didn't understand the entire collapse of the system -- Sie haben ihn als Renegade and Verr?ter angesehen Frage 19: -- to help make a question one has oneself more clear? -- vorlesungen (which were written ahead of time and then read!) are not just for students but also for the professors themselves 1) he wrote to satisfy his own thirst for knowledge and curiosity 2) a pedagogical assignment; a mission in life to teach people about these topics Zu verstehen das modernes Deutschhland muss man etwas ?ber Leonahrds Geschichte wissen [Dr Hye talked to him 4 times about excerpting some of his works in this book; Leonahrd was glad because he wanted Americans to learn about this stuff] -- it was hard for him to live in the West because the people hated Communism -- 3) others had Ahnungslosigkeit or Sch?nf?rberei (they were na?ve or had rose-colored glasses) -- his books compared the Soviet/DDR system and the west -- Fehler zu verminden Frage 20: -- Zusammenbruch des alten kommunisten Systems -- people need communist experts for another few years to help develop the new democratic systems between the Elbe and Vladivostok -- he wanted to help people in the east understand capitalist ways Video title: Zeugen des Jahhunderts Interviewer: Dieter Zimmer Frage 9) -- sein These war dass Deutschland brauchte its own form of communism -- diese These aufgeben and zugeben diese nicht mehr Recht hat Frage 10) Cut the umbilical cord -- 1936 schon bei der Zauberung -- immer wieder Zweifel und Rechtfertigung, und Hoffnung -- Meinungskrise Frage 11: -- codes -- zwischen den Zeile -- also count the lines; je mehr Zeile desto mehr wichtiger -- short articles were just administrative, practical announcements (no discussion) Frage 12: -- erfuhlt sich zum ersten Mal wie ein Europ?er, nicht als Nord Amerikaner -- sehr begeistert ?ber Yale, die allebeste Unis -- Williams, Amherst, Harvard -- nur gutes zu sagen Frage 13: -- he wasn't sure whether he should go; would he be arrested again or not? -- immer das alte Gef?hl -- he had a BRD pin on his label to make himself feel more secure -- die Workung Perestroikas gesehen Frage 14: GUS = CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) -- es gibt versogens; es gibt gutes und schlechtes -- no one is getting shot any more Frage 15: -- nein -- er m?chtes dieses Wort nicht zu benutzen -- he doesn't really consider this Send Frau Pham a confirmation e-mail tonight </plaintext><br /></body></html>