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Nazis one of the most celebrated novels written in post-war germany the german bus it finally makes it to the big screen. and speaking of german the world famous october fast with at least one big twist this october fest with hundreds of thousands of visitors isn't in germany at all so where is it. 1st off though and summit look at life inside the former east germany a dictatorship that hundreds of people died trying to escape now though almost 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall initiators of a new project called open memory box say it's time to finally start looking at other aspects o...

Images they ordered are about what private life is about is people going for holy days and speaking of holidays i just just briefly want to show some footage because there's a lot of there's a lot of images of nudism and can you just briefly tell us what is that about or that is all about that people for a reason that maybe nobody really knows where it came from but in east germany going to the beach and having no clothes on was this sort of a folk sport i would say it was like what people did it would be and that was very different i was very different from in the west so that was a sort of f...

Political scientist lawrence murphy folds the connected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click the words in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 german families. the footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just people living their lives despite the dictatorship. and with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open me...