Ah! Yes, that explains why he is an American, not German! Journalist is another story- a bit dangerous to work in any Communist nation that time due to repression of information and restrictions.
Yes, GDR struggled to raise the living standard after the Second World War and economy was very bad because they had to send nearly everything to the USSR to pay off the reparations that the USSR imposed on GDR which caused this uprising.
I apologise for jumping to the conclusion in my previous comment! 💚🙏
Jonathan returns to Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The streets are entirely different now, yet ghosts
of his past still flicker among them. Nearly forty years later, his journey has only two purposes — to write
a book about Berlin in the 1950s and to find one of the dearest people from his past — Erdmann.
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