B: I/
B: ICH1
B: As you know, there used to be East and West Germany as well as the Berlin Wall.
B: FRÜHER1
B: OSTEN1A*
B: ost
B: WESTEN1A
B: west
B: $INDEX1*
B: berlin
B: BERLIN1A*
B: ACHTUNG1A^*
B: MAUER3
B: mauer
B: ||WISSEN2A*
B: weißt
B: ||DU1*
B: As you know the Berlin Wall was at the Brandenburg Gate.
B: MAUER1A
B: RAHMEN1B^
B: BERLIN1A*
B: berlin
B: GEHÖREN1^
B: WISSEN2A*
B: DU1*
B: Back then a deaf friend invited me to come.
B: ||ICH1
B: ||FRÜHER1*
B: ||FREUND1
B: freund
B: ||TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: [MG]
B: ||ICH1
B: [MG]
B: ||ICH1*
B: EINLADEN2^*
B: I visited him in Dresden.
B: ||RICHTUNG3*
B: dresden
B: ||DRESDEN2
B: ||ICH1
B: ||BESUCHEN1A*
B: As I drove across Berlin, I saw the Berlin Wall everywhere and thought it was really weird.
B: ||BERLIN1A*
B: berlin
B: ||BESUCHEN1A*
B: ||$GEST^
B: ||MERKWÜRDIG1*
B: [MG]
B: MAUER3*
B: $GEST^
B: Would it ever fall?
B: ES-GIBT3
B: gibt
B: I didn't have the feeling that the Russians or the Americans occupied their territories the right way.
B: ICH2*
B: GEFÜHL1*
B: NICHT3A
B: nicht
B: STIMMT1^*
B: RUSSLAND2A
B: russland
B: BESETZT1A^
B: AMERIKA1*
B: amerika
B: ||BESETZT1A^*
B: BESETZT1A^*
B: It kept going like this but then it stopped.
B: IMMER4A*
B: immer
B: $GEST^
B: NICHT3B
B: Strangely enough the Russians fell back.
B: MERKWÜRDIG1*
B: [MG]
B: RUSSLAND2A
B: russland
B: ZURÜCKZIEHEN1*
B: It was strange.
B: MERKWÜRDIG1*
B: [MG]
B: The GDR stayed.
B: NUR2B
B: nur
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R
B: d-d-r
B: BLEIBEN1*
B: bleiben
B: I thought it was weird but that's how it was.
B: [MG]
B: MERKWÜRDIG1*
B: $GEST^
B: I wondered about the fronts since they were enemies.
B: ||ICH1*
B: ||SORGEN-SICH1A^*
B: $GEST^
B: ELLBOGEN4^
B: [MG]
B: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV2^*
B: [MG]
B: GEGEN3A
B: gegen
B: East and West Germany were hostile towards one another.
B: ||WESTEN1A*
B: west
B: ||OSTEN1A*
B: ost
B: GEGEN3A^*
B: It's not nice. It's too bad.
B: ||SCHÖN1A
B: schön
B: $GEST^
B: SCHADE1*
B: schade
B: $GEST^
B: They were enemies.
B: GEGEN5B^
B: Forty years later/
B: SPÄTER9A
B: später
B: $NUM-ZEHNER1:4
B: vierzig
B: JAHR1A
B: jahr
B: SPÄTER9B*
B: später
B: But I was there before that happened.
B: ||ABER1*
B: aber
B: ||VOR1D
B: vor
B: ||ICH1*
B: $INDEX-MONITOR1
B: ||DURCH1^
B: I visited Poland before the Berlin Wall was built.
B: ||FRÜHER1*
B: [MG]
B: SCHRANKE2A^*
B: MAUER3*
B: ||LEER1^*
B: ||ICH2
B: ||DURCH1A*
B: ||NACH-ORT1*
B: ||POLEN2
B: polen
B: ||ICH1
B: One had a feeling of freedom there. That was nice.
B: ||DANN1A*
B: FREI1
B: frei
B: GUT1*
B: But there were a lot of soldiers who supervised everything.
B: ABER1*
B: aber
B: DA1*
B: da
B: SOLDAT1*
B: AUFPASSEN1A
B: DA1*
B: da
B: DA1*
B: da
B: DA1*
B: da
B: The Russians were armed/
B: RUSSLAND4B*
B: russen
B: SOLDAT1*
B: There weren't any soldiers from the GDR, only Russians.
B: NEIN2A
B: MUSS1A*
B: muss
B: RUSSLAND4B*
B: russen
B: AUFPASSEN5
B: SOLDAT1*
B: I drove my car on and on until I was in Poland.
B: $INDEX1*
B: AUTO1*
B: ||DURCH1^*
B: [MG]
B: ||RICHTUNG3^
B: endlich
B: ||POLEN2
B: polen
B: ||DURCH1^*
B: That's how it was.
B: ||ICH1*
B: ||SEHEN1
B: $GEST^
B: Later the Berlin Wall fell.
B: ||SPÄTER5*
B: später
B: MAUER3
B: mauer
B: $INDEX1*
B: MAUERFALL1
B: mauer
B: I was surprised that they accomplished it.
B: ICH1*
B: MERKWÜRDIG1*
B: [MG]
B: SCHAFFEN1A
B: schaffen
B: Normally one must/
B: NORMAL1*
B: normal
B: MUSS1A
B: muss
B: Wait a second/
B: ||MOMENT1
B: The Berlin Wall didn't fall on this day.
B: $INDEX1*
B: [MG]
B: MAUER3
B: ||NEIN1A
B: The Berlin Wall fell a day earlier instead of the next day.
B: $INDEX1*
B: meint
B: ||MEINUNG1A
B: ||DANN1A
B: MAUER3
B: mauer
B: ||SCHON1A
B: schon
B: ||VORHER2
B: vorher
B: MAUERFALL1
B: mauer
B: I was shocked.
B: ||SCHOCK1
B: schock
B: ||ICH2
B: It happened so fast.
B: ||SCHNELL1A
B: schnell
B: It was amazing that the people were able to achieve that.
B: ||MERKWÜRDIG1^*
B: [MG]
B: $GEST^
B: SCHAFFEN1A
B: schaffen
B: $GEST^
C: Do you think that deaf people discussed this topic?
B: I/
B: ICH2*
B: I don't meet any hearing people anymore to discuss things.
B: ICH1
A: You/
B: ||TREFFEN2B*
A: DU1
B: ||HÖREN2*
B: hören
B: NICHT-MEHR1A*
B: nicht mehr
B: ||ICH2
B: HANDLUNG3^
B: And among deaf people, maybe.
A: But/
B: ||TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
A: $INDEX1
A: I was shocked, too, when I saw all the refugees travelling to the Hungarian embassy.
B: $GEST^
B: [MG]
A: ACHTUNG1A^*
B: $GEST^
A: DURCH2A
A: durch
A: FERNSEHER2*
A: fernseh
A: $GEST-VERSCHRÄNKTE-ARME1^
A: [MG]
A: FLUCHT1B*
A: flucht
A: ungarn
A: UNGARN-$KANDIDAT-HB05^
A: ||FERN1^
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV1^*
A: [MG]
A: botschaft
A: SCHICKEN1^
A: STEMPEL1^*
A: ||$INDEX1*
A: They also fled to the Czech Republic and Poland.
A: TSCHECHEI1
A: tschechien
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV1^*
A: [MG]
A: POLEN1A*
A: polen
B: A lot of people swamped these places; that's right.
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV2^*
A: [MG]
B: AUSBREITEN1A^
A: It was unbelievable.
A: ICH1
A: SEHR7
A: [MG]
B: STIMMT1^*
A: There were continuously fewer and fewer people in the GDR because the stream of refugees was so great.
A: SPÄTER3*
A: VERRINGERN1A^
A: [MG]
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV2*
A: [MG]
A: STARK2B*
A: stark
A: The people got fewer and fewer until the whole nation had enough and started to demonstrate heavily.
A: VERRINGERN1A^
A: [MG]
A: ALLE1A^
A: volk
A: STARK2B*
A: [MG]
A: PROTEST1*
A: [MG]
A: STARK2B
A: stark
A: He should have retreated.
A: GEWESEN1*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: RÜCKTRITT1
A: rücktritt
A: What was his name again?
A: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^
B: Gorbachev was already gone.
A: $GEST^
A: [MG]
B: ||$NAME
B: gorbatschow
A: No, no.
B: ||AB1A*
A: NEIN1A*
A: nein
B: Oh, Honecker.
A: $INDEX1*
B: ACHTUNG1A^
B: ||$GEST-AUFMERKSAMKEIT1^*
A: No, Ul/
B: ||$ALPHA1:K
B: honecker
A: SCHNABEL1^*
A: ul{bricht}
A: The one with the beard, Ulbricht, was gone.
A: SCHNABEL1^
A: ulbricht
B: $ORAL^
B: honecker
A: BART3^*
A: [MG]
A: VORBEI2B^
A: weg
A: The second person was Honecker.
A: honecker
A: $LIST1:2of2d*
B: Honecker.
B: ||$ALPHA1:K
B: honecker
A: $INDEX1
A: $LIST1:2of2d
A: He stepped down.
A: $GEST^*
A: RÜCKTRITT1*
A: rücktritt
B: He moved to Chile.
B: ||$ALPHA1:C-H-I-L-E
B: chile
A: $LIST1:2of2d
A: The third person, what was his name again?
A: $NUM-EINER1A:3d
A: sch
B: HIN1^*
A: NAME1B*
A: [MG]
B: ||PARTEI1^
B: chile
A: $GEST^*
A: $LIST1:3of3d*
C: From the GDR?
A: Krenz was the third person.
A: RING3^*
A: krenz krenz
A: $LIST1:3of3d
A: SEHEN-AUF1^
A: The people were finally free and they streamed across the boarder because it was basically open.
A: FREI1
A: frei
A: AB1A^
A: [MG]
A: mauer
A: MAUERFALL1*
A: $INDEX2
A: VORBEI1^
A: $PROD*
A: [MG]
A: Later the Berlin Wall fell and it didn't exist anymore.
A: MAUER1B*
A: mauer
A: SPÄTER3*
A: später
A: MAUERFALL1
A: [MG]
A: FERTIG1A*
B: Everybody went there early.
A: NICHT-MEHR1A
B: ||FRÜH2*
B: ||$GEST-AUFMERKSAMKEIT1^
B: ||FRÜH2*
B: früh
B: ||DU1*
B: Normally they should have come the next day.
B: ||NORMAL1*
B: normal
B: ||DU1*
B: ||MORGEN1B
B: morgen
B: ||MUSS1A
B: muss
B: Everyone went there earlier.
B: ||DU1*
B: du
B: ||SCHON1B
B: schon
B: ||FRÜH2
B: früh
B: ||VORHER2
B: vorher
B: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV2^*
B: The fall of the Berlin Wall was arranged, but it happened differently.
B: ABMACHEN1
B: abgemacht
B: MAUERFALL1
B: MERKWÜRDIG1^*
B: The heads of the government were confused.
B: CHEF1B
B: chef
B: $INDEX1*
B: $GEST^
B: [MG]
B: VERWIRRT-SEIN1
B: $GEST^
B: But they had to accept it and sign the papers.
B: [MG]
B: NEHMEN1A^
B: $GEST^
B: ||STIMMT1^*
B: ||UNTERSCHREIBEN1A^*
B: It was really chaotic.
B: ||MISCHEN2*
B: [MG]
B: Then they were free.
B: FREI1
B: frei
B: ||FERTIG1A
B: $GEST^
B: [MG]
B: That was great.
B: TOLL1A
B: toll
B: $GEST^
B: I wanted to ask and communicate with the people there because I didn't know much about East Germany.
B: ICH2
B: FRAGE1*
B: frage
B: NOCH-NICHT2*
B: noch nicht
B: ICH2
B: ich
B: OSTEN1A*
B: osten
B: STIMMT1^*
B: HANDLUNG3^
B: But the people didn't want to be asked questions because they didn't feel comfortable.
B: ICH1*
B: $INDEX1*
B: ICH1*
B: MÖGEN4*
B: mag
B: NICHT3B
B: They felt mildly hurt and felt sorry for them.
B: ABER1*
B: aber
B: BETROFFEN2^*
B: ICH1
B: LIEBER1
B: But in time I got to know the people and their lives in the GDR.
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R
B: d-d-r
B: $INDEX1
B: LEBEN1C*
B: ABLAUF1^
B: KENNEN1A
B: kennen
A: They say/
B: SEIN-IHR1
B: LEBEN1C
B: leben
A: SAGEN1*
B: West Germany had a bad reputation in their eyes.
B: ||WESTEN1A
B: westen
B: ||SCHLECHT1*
B: schlecht
B: ||WORT2^
B: [MG]
B: I didn't talk to them anymore.
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: HANDLUNG3^
B: NICHT-MEHR1A*
B: nicht mehr
B: We stayed among ourselves and talked to one another.
B: ||NUR2A
B: nur
B: ||WIR1A
B: ENDE1^*
B: SPRECHEN2^*
B: But rarely.
B: WENIG4
B: wenig
B: $GEST^
B: That came to my attention. That's it.
B: SO1
B: so
B: INS-AUGE-FALLEN1
B: ||FERTIG1B
B: $GEST^
B: It is great that the people were finally free, but that's it.
B: ||TOLL1A*
B: toll
B: FREI1
B: frei
B: FERTIG1A*
B: MEHR1
B: mehr
B: $GEST-ICH-WEISS-NICHT1^
B: [MG]
B: However, I didn't think anything special or strange about them.
B: MERKWÜRDIG1*
B: [MG]
B: INTERESSE1A
B: KEIN7*
B: [MG]
B: Nevertheless, it shocked me that the Berlin Wall fell. It was incredible.
B: ABER1*
B: aber
B: SCHRECK1*
B: SO1
B: so
B: SEHR7*
B: [MG]
A: True. The people of the GDR have always said that West Germany was ruled by capitalism, but that wasn't true.
A: ACHTUNG1A^
B: That's how it was.
B: ||FERTIG1A*
B: $GEST^
A: aber
A: $GEST-RUHIG-BLEIBEN1^*
A: ABER1*
B: How was it for you?
A: DDR2*
A: d-d-r
B: DEIN1
B: WAS1A*
A: SAGEN2
A: sagen
A: $INDEX1
A: ||WESTEN1A*
A: westen
A: KAPITALISMUS1
A: kapital
A: STIMMT1A*
A: stimmt nicht
A: Everyone works and earns money accordingly.
B: Exactly, that's not true.
B: STIMMT1A*
A: ALLE1A
A: alle
A: ICH2^
A: wollen
A: ARBEITEN1
A: arbeiten arbeiten
B: That's obviously true.
A: VERDIENEN2
A: verdienen
B: STIMMT1B
A: davon
A: DAVON1*
A: $GEST^
A: I think it's not true.
B: KLAR1A*
A: DENKEN1B
A: denken
A: $GEST^
A: STIMMT1A*
B: I know a deaf person from East Germany. #Name1, do you know him?
B: OSTEN1A*
B: osten
B: ICH1*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: STÄDTENAMEN5^*
B: #name1
B: KENNEN1A
B: #name1
B: DU1*
A: #Name1? Yes, I know him.
B: #name1
B: #Name1, do you know him?
A: $ORAL^
A: #name1 ja
B: #name1
B: DU1*
A: Barely.
B: KENNEN1A
A: ETWAS3^*
B: He is a professional shooter. He's a great shooter.
A: $GEST^
B: SCHIESSEN1A^*
B: PERSON1
B: VIEL5
B: SEHR6
B: [MG]
B: SCHIESSEN1A^*
B: He won at the Olympic Games.
B: OLYMPIA1
B: [MG]
B: FRÜHER1*
B: GEWINNEN1*
A: $GEST^
A: Really?
B: $INDEX1*
B: He lives in Dresden.
B: DRESDEN2
B: dresden
B: WOHNUNG1A^
B: $INDEX1*
B: He has no legs.
B: SCHNEIDEN-TRENNEN-KÖRPERTEIL1D^*
B: ab ab
B: BEIN1B*
B: beine
B: SCHNEIDEN-TRENNEN-KÖRPERTEIL1D^*
B: ab ab
B: He was sick.
B: KRANK1*
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX1*
B: He said, “I am from the GDR.”
B: SAGEN1*
B: ICH1
B: $GEST^
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R
B: d-d-r
B: I asked him if he wanted to meet deaf people and he said, “no.”
B: ICH2
B: BESCHEID1A
B: DU1*
B: [MG]
B: KÖRPER1^*
B: TREFFEN2B
B: ||TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: ||NEIN1A
B: I was surprised.
B: [MG]
B: ||ICH1*
B: SORGEN-SICH1A^
B: Later, my wife and I visited him.
B: PLÖTZLICH4^*
B: MAL3
B: einmal
B: AKZEPTIEREN1*
B: HEIRATEN3A*
B: ||ZUSAMMEN3A*
B: zusammen
B: BESUCHEN1^*
B: We did some sightseeing together; that was nice.
B: SEHEN-AUF1^*
B: GUT1*
B: Then he said that he had to go to a bar where deaf people were, to pick up a document.
B: $INDEX1*
B: BRAUCHEN1*
B: brauch
B: BESUCHEN1^*
B: LOKAL-GASTSTÄTTE1*
B: lokal
B: ||TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: taub
B: $INDEX1
B: [MG]
B: HOLEN1A
B: TIPPEN2
B: PAPIER1
B: $INDEX1*
B: [MG]
B: HOLEN1A^
B: SAGEN1^*
B: I didn't mind and we went there together.
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST^
B: BESUCHEN1^*
B: Deaf people were there.
B: PLÖTZLICH4
B: ||TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: DA1
B: da
B: $INDEX1*
B: About seven or eight deaf people sat there and talked to one another.
B: $NUM-EINER1A:7d
B: $NUM-EINER1A:8d
B: [MG]
B: ||TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A*
B: SITZEN1A*
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: BEREICH1A
B: I thought it was weird. I observed it and slowly came closer.
B: ||ICH1
B: MERKWÜRDIG1
B: [MG]
B: ||ICH1
B: ||SEHEN-AUF1^
B: ||ICH1*
B: ||GEHEN1A*
B: Everyone looked at me.
B: ||ALLE2A
B: ||SEHEN-AUF6^*
B: [MG]
B: #Name1 told me to not talk to them.
B: #name1
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: ||NEIN1A*
B: SCHUTZ2A^*
B: I understood then that these people were from the Stasi [Ministry for State Security].
B: BEGREIFEN1^*
B: STASI1D
B: stasi
B: DA1
B: da
B: $INDEX1*
B: I was stunned.
B: ICH1
B: BAFF-SEIN2
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: Bad, that's true.
A: $GEST^
A: schlimm
A: $ORAL^
A: stimmt
C: How did they achieve that?
B: The people had a lot of advantages.
B: $INDEX1*
B: VIEL1A
B: [MG]
B: VORTEIL1
B: vorteil
B: BEKOMMEN1*
B: If you saw people having these advantages then it was clear that they actually worked for the Stasi.
B: [MG]
B: ||ICH1*
B: $INDEX1*
B: ||STIMMT1^
B: ||STASI1D
B: stasi
B: ||STIMMT1^
B: $GEST^
B: But the Stasi wasn't all that bad.
B: $GEST^
B: aber
B: STASI1D*
B: SCHLECHT1*
B: schlecht
B: $GEST^
B: It's important that one gets help and support and so on.
B: HAUPTSACHE1B*
B: hauptsache
B: HELFEN1*
B: hilfe
B: BEZAHLEN3^*
B: $INDEX1*||AUFZÄHLEN1C^*
B: $GEST^
B: When the Stasi had something against him, then it also affected his daughter and so on.
B: WENN1
B: [MG]
B: SCHUTZ2A^*
B: GEHÖREN1^*
B: TOCHTER1
B: tochter
B: $INDEX1*
B: AUCH3A*
B: auch
B: $GEST^
A: $ORAL^
A: tochter
A: The daughter.
B: My friend and his daughter needed jobs as well.
B: MANN1*
B: mann
B: $INDEX1*
B: TOCHTER1*
B: WISSEN2A^*
B: schwiegertochter
B: WOLLEN2^
B: TOCHTER1*
B: AUCH3A
B: auch
B: $GEST^
B: BEREICH1E^*
B: $GEST^
B: ||ARBEITEN1
B: arbeit
B: BRAUCHEN1*
B: brauchen
B: PLATZ9
B: platz
B: KLAR1A
B: klar
B: I saw these people sign and asked them, “Can we talk?”
B: ||TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A*
B: $INDEX1
B: GEBÄRDEN1C
B: ||ICH2
B: GEBÄRDEN1C*
B: $GEST^
B: [MG]
B: ||$INDEX1*
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: ||BEIDE2A*
B: “I am deaf and you are too,” but they turned away and looked straight ahead. I thought it was odd.
B: [MG]
B: ||ICH1*
B: ||TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: ||$INDEX1*
B: ||AUCH1A
B: ||SEHEN-AUF1^*
B: KONZENTRIEREN1A^
B: My clothing revealed that I was from West Germany.
B: ||WESTEN1C*
B: west west
B: VERRATEN1A*
B: KLEIDUNG1C
B: People from the West attracted attention.
B: ||WESTEN1A
B: westen
B: ||AUFFALLEN1A
B: auffallen
B: It wasn't the case for people from the East.
B: ||OSTEN1A
B: osten
B: ||NEIN1B
A: Simple.
A: EINFACH1*
A: einfach
B: My friend #Name1 took his belongings and was gone immediately.
B: $INDEX1*
B: $GEST^
B: NACH-HAUSE1*
B: [MG]
B: I wasn't supposed to talk to them. He stopped me from doing that.
B: $GEST^
B: [MG]
B: NEIN1A*
B: SCHUTZ2A*
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-NM^
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
C: Asks how they experienced the events surrounding the Fall of the Wall, whether they watched TV until late at night, got goosebumps, talked to their wives and how they felt throughout.
B: No.
B: ||NEIN1A
B: [MG]
B: Yes, I had goose bumps. It was really moving.
B: [MG]
B: ||ICH1*
B: ||GÄNSEHAUT1
A: True.
B: ||SEHR6*
A: ||STIMMT1A
A: True, I had goose bumps as well.
A: GÄNSEHAUT1^
B: SEHR6
A: STIMMT1A
A: stimmt
A: ICH1
B: I thought the situation with Kohl was weird.
B: $GEST^
B: [MG]
B: $NAME-HELMUT-KOHL1
B: kohl
B: MERKWÜRDIG1
B: [MG]
B: $GEST^
B: Kohl was standing alone.
B: IN-DER-KLEMME-STECKEN1
B: DA1
B: da
B: I was wondering where the politicians from the GDR were, but they were all gone.
B: SORGEN-SICH1A^
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R
B: d-{d-r}
B: WO1A
B: wo
B: FORT1^*
B: The boarder guards were just standing there and they let everything happen. They didn't do more.
B: AUFPASSEN1A
B: $PROD*
B: [MG]
B: KUSCHEN1
B: FERTIG1B
A: Yes.
A: $GEST^
B: $GEST^
B: Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall the GDR lost its power.
B: UM6^
B: mauer
B: MACHT3
B: macht
B: VORBEI4
B: vorbei
B: I thought it was great that they achieved the fall of the inner German boarder.
B: ICH1
B: TOLL1A
B: toll
B: FERTIG1A*
B: $GEST^
B: SCHAFFEN1A
B: schaffen
B: AUF-OFFEN1
B: offen
B: East and West Germany were united again; that was beautiful.
B: ZUSAMMEN6*
B: zusammen
B: SCHÖN1A
B: schön aber
B: But of course they had lived separately and differently because of the Berlin Wall for forty years.
B: FÜR1*
B: für
B: LEBEN1C*
B: leben
B: LEBEN1C*
B: leben
B: KLAR1A
B: klar
B: $NUM-ZEHNER1:4
B: vierzig
B: JAHR1A
B: jahre
A: Yes, that's how long it was.
A: $GEST^
B: MAUER1A
B: mauer
B: The one group was used to keep everything inside, while the others were able to speak their mind freely.
B: GEWOHNHEIT1*
B: gewohnt
B: INNEN1B^*
B: ||$INDEX1*
B: GEWOHNHEIT1*
B: gewohnt
B: FREI1
B: frei
B: That the people in West Germany were supposed to be really wealthy wasn't true.
B: WIRKLICH1
B: wirklich
B: ||GELD1A^
B: vermögen
B: ||$INDEX1*
B: I was poor, too.
B: ICH1*
B: ARMUT2*
B: arm
B: AUCH3A*
B: auch
B: ICH1*
B: There were also rich people in the GDR.
B: GELD1A
B: BEZAHLEN3^*
B: AUCH1A*
B: auch
B: $GEST^
B: Which means that there also lived rich people with a lot of money in the GDR.
B: BEDEUTUNG1^*
B: $INDEX1*
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R
B: d-d-r
B: VIEL1A
B: GELD1A
B: REICH2A
B: reich
B: $INDEX1*
B: People with money were able to flee the country to Switzerland or South America, like Chile.
B: ||SEHR6
B: ||INHALT3
B: ||HAUPT1C^
B: ||SCHWEIZ1A*
B: schweiz
B: ||$INDEX1*
B: ||RICHTUNG3*
B: AMERIKA1^
B: chile
B: ||PARTEI1^
B: ||$INDEX1*
B: $GEST^