Arquivo

Two hundred and fifty thousand people were arrested by the rigid regime of the Eastern side, during the time in which Germany was divided into two blocks. Anne, Utz, Matthias, and Tine were the same age as their children are today when heavy prison sentences were metered out to them as a result of political persecution. Even today, living as they are in a unified, modern country, they bear the marks of the past - scars that also exert an influence on the lives of their children and render them indirect victims. These youngsters are afraid of ever asking their parents about the past, and the parents are little inclined to talk.