In this simple phrase, "I was a citizen of the GDR," lie countless individual life stories. Former citizens of the German Democratic Republic talk about their personal feelings, experiences and attitudes toward the GDR. They reflect on important, painful and contradictory historical events such as the uprising on June 17th in 1953, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968. They also convey the sense of the hopes pinned on Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika.
Ehemalige DDR-Bürger berichten über Erlebnisse, Gefühle und ihre persönliche Haltung. Politiker wie Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Valentin Falin und Bürgerrechtler wie Ulrike Poppe kommen zu Wort.
