were checks on the way that they knew us and they let us leave i drove into the station and tell. if that's where we said goodbye in sixty one thinking it wouldn't be long before now that i think that. east germany turned him into a foreigner but. germany was also foreign to him you can valor was his home routine was to remain an advocate for german reunification for the rest of his life. now things like after the second world war the government started talking nonstop about reunification twenty years have gone by and it's not happening what we do have governments that are institutionalized lying machines machines of half truths and distortion that people aren't being told the truth means there's no dialogue