Travelling in former East Germany

[Zebra]

Who has travelled there when the GDR still existed?

 

[JGalt]

Who has travelled there when the GDR still existed?

No need to. I can get all the German food I want here.

And if I want to see a bunch of silly Germans dressed up in short leather pants, I'll just go to the Oktoberfest held in every city of this country.

 

[Zebra]

No need to. I can get all the German food I want here.

And if I want to see a bunch of silly Germans dressed up in short leather pants, I'll just go to the Oktoberfest held in every city of this country.

you wont find them in the East.

 

[Zebra]

specially i went to East Berlin and Weimar then.

And Dresden also.

 

[Zebra]

and the Island of Rügen!

 

[whitehall]

This isn't the travel forum. Since it's history lets discuss the creation of East Germany. It started with FDR's friendship with Stalin. Churchill claimed the policies led to the "Iron Curtain". When The Russians were building the notorious "wall" during the JFK administration, he took a trip to Germany, gave a rousing speech that the media loved and left the Germans to be shot in the back for the next 25 years or so. The wall came own during the Reagan administration and all of a sudden former Russian president Gorbachov, known affectionately as Gorbey by the left, was the darling of liberals who conveniently forgot that he presided over the atrocities for a couple of years.

 

[Zebra]

it isnt the travel forum ….

butbtravelling in the GDR wasvpolitical!

 

[Zebra]

who had to do with the security forces?

in the GDR?

 

[Zebra]

how did you go through border cotrol then?

 

[Zebra]

This isn't the travel forum. Since it's history lets discuss the creation of East Germany. It started with FDR's friendship with Stalin. Churchill claimed the policies led to the "Iron Curtain". When The Russians were building the notorious "wall" during the JFK administration, he took a trip to Germany, gave a rousing speech that the media loved and left the Germans to be shot in the back for the next 25 years or so. The wall came own during the Reagan administration and all of a sudden former Russian president Gorbachov, known affectionately as Gorbey by the left, was the darling of liberals who conveniently forgot that he presided over the atrocities for a couple of years.

twas not the Russians, but the East Germans who had built the Wall.

 

[Zebra]

btw ... travelling in East Germany IS history!

 

[Deadstick]

This isn't the travel forum. Since it's history lets discuss the creation of East Germany. It started with FDR's friendship with Stalin. Churchill claimed the policies led to the "Iron Curtain". When The Russians were building the notorious "wall" during the JFK administration, he took a trip to Germany, gave a rousing speech that the media loved and left the Germans to be shot in the back for the next 25 years or so. The wall came own during the Reagan administration and all of a sudden former Russian president Gorbachov, known affectionately as Gorbey by the left, was the darling of liberals who conveniently forgot that he presided over the atrocities for a couple of years.

The Berlin wall was the price Germans paid for starting and losing a World war, and the Soviet Union objection to the D mark being introduced.

 

[Zebra]

The Berlin wall was the price Germans paid for starting and losing a World war, and the Soviet Union objection to the D mark being introduced.

that is not my point

my point is .... have been there?

and what do you remember?

 

[Deadstick]

that is not my point

my point is .... have been there?

and what do you remember?

No never went there, i would probably have been arrested before i got on a flight, did you know when many people were Nazis or working with them Erich Honecker was banged up in a Gestapo prison?

 

[Zebra]

No never went there, i would probably have been arrested before i got on a flight, did you know when many people were Nazis or working with them Erich Honecker was banged up in a Gestapo prison?

it was informative to go there

 

[Zebra]

And if I want to see a bunch of silly Germans dressed up in short leather pants, I'll just go to the Oktoberfest held in every city of this country.

There were none of those in East Germany

 

[Seymour Flops]

Who has travelled there when the GDR still existed?

I went to East Berlin as a soldier on a tour. A very interesting day, but only a day.

 

[Mushroom]

Who has travelled there when the GDR still existed?

Not me, but I did spend some time in Leipzig several years ago.

And even commented to my much younger friends in the military that if we had been there 25 years earlier, we would have all been arrested as that would have been in East Germany. One only understood it when I compared it to us being somewhere in North Korea in the modern era.

But I did get a chuckle when I realized that the big battle at the end of Captain America: Civil War was at the Leipzig Airport.

 

[Deadstick]

There were none of those in East Germany

Lederhosen is i believe a Bayern tradition.

 

[Deadstick]

I have never been there, what i do know is all those cold war films like the Ipcress file with Michael Cain it was always dark and looked like night time when showing the East German scenes then when the scenes were in West Germany if not daylight it was always bright and full of neon lights and happy people and cars etc, subtle propaganda.