影片描述了汉斯-康拉德-舒曼(Hans Conrad Schumann),一个年轻的东德边防军,负责看守柏林墙的建设。然而,趁着同事们分心的时刻,这个年轻人逃到了西部,越过了标志着两个柏林之间边界的铁丝网屏障。
汉斯-康拉德-舒曼因此成为一名政治难民,开始了在联邦德国的新生活。他多次被邀请回国,也是通过STASI对留在民主德国的亲属施加的压力,但在1989年隔离墙倒塌后才回到东方。
他的亲属拒绝见他。
汉斯-康拉德-舒曼于1998年在巴伐利亚州基普芬堡的家中上吊自杀,结束了自己的生命。
It portrays Hans Conrad Schumann, a young East German border guard tasked with guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. However, taking advantage of a moment of distraction by his colleagues, the young man escaped to the west and crossed the barbed wire barrier that marked the border between the two Berlins.
Hans Conrad Schumann thus became a political refugee and began a new life in Federal Germany. He was repeatedly invited to return home, also through pressure exerted by STASI on relatives remaining in the GDR, but only returned to the East in 1989 after the fall of the wall.
His relatives refused to see him.
Hans Conrad Schumann ended his life by hanging himself in 1998 at his home in Kipfienberg in Bavaria
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具有讽刺意味的是,许多最终在东德生活的人一直生活在西方,直到1945年后才逃到苏联境内,原因是最初那几年那里的生活条件更好。
在这个战后时期,德国人受到摩根索计划的一些残余影响,这将意味着在一个被战争破坏的经济中被迫养活自己,所有幸存的工业都被强行没收。
尽管后一部分同样是由苏联人执行的,但事实证明,斯大林在食品配给方面远没有那么严厉。
结果,当美国占领下的德国人在每天1000卡路里的热量下慢慢饿死的时候,苏联占领区的人得到的是更容易生存的1500卡路里。
美国将军卢修斯-克莱--负责监督德国战后局势的高级人员之一--后来评论说,"在每天1,500卡路里的共产主义者和1,000卡路里的民主信徒之间没有选择。"
美国政府很快意识到,斯大林政权向幸存的德国人民提供的这个战后提议,如果允许它继续下去,将使所谓的 "民主 "生活方式失去信誉。
1948年4月3日,马歇尔计划被引入,作为证明西方经济优于共产主义的手段,从那时起,西德稳步追赶其东部的同行,直到1953年斯大林去世时,他们才得以超越他们。
有趣的事实是,斯大林反对建墙,部分原因是他希望某些 "麻烦制造者 "离开他的政权,也因为让几十万德国人选择生活在他的手下而不是死在美国占领区的饥饿中是一个很好的宣传工具。
如果马歇尔计划从一开始就到位,很可能苏联帝国会比它早几年崩溃,因为摩根索计划--如果按照它的初衷执行,情况会更糟--不仅给苏联提供了免费的人力,它还说服了许多生活在东欧的潜在叛逃者,直到几十年后,现代信息对事实有了更清晰的表述,他们才会费力地逃往西方。
这种情况有点类似于直到最近的1970年代,很多韩国人都认为朝鲜是两个国家中更好的国家--无论是在经济还是政治权利方面--而在第二次世界大战期间,生活在波兰和其他地方的许多犹太人选择留在纳粹占领下,因为苏联的刑法制度甚至比集中营更严酷。
This photo was taken by photographer Peter Leibing on 15 August 1961 near Bernauer Straße.
It portrays Hans Conrad Schumann, a young East German border guard tasked with guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. However, taking advantage of a moment of distraction by his colleagues, the young man escaped to the west and crossed the barbed wire barrier that marked the border between the two Berlins.
Hans Conrad Schumann thus became a political refugee and began a new life in Federal Germany. He was repeatedly invited to return home, also through pressure exerted by STASI on relatives remaining in the GDR, but only returned to the East in 1989 after the fall of the wall.
His relatives refused to see him.
Hans Conrad Schumann ended his life by hanging himself in 1998 at his home in Kipfienberg in Bavaria.
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