You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Contest - Story9: "My Student Life" / "Mein Leben als Schüler / Student"
Ah, I understand. You’ve seen a view of the world which is so different to almost everybody else. In one sense, I’m surprised that it didn’t bring you closer together and I hesitate to use the word “ashamed” as the reason it’s not spoken about.
Do you wonder what life would have been for you had the wall not come down?
No.
I once wrote elsewhere that I was forced into army service and screwed up one thing after another until they threw me out. It wasn't possible to resign so easily.
After that I was "burnt" for the GDR - I wouldn't have found work because they didn't hire anyone who had been dishonourably discharged. After the " turnaround" I was just as unacceptable. Precisely BECAUSE I had the army background.
I wouldn't have got along in one system and I had just as much trouble in the other one.