Der Zug In Die Freiheit Analysis

For most Americans life in the GDR or German Democratic Republic is tied to stories of Berlin, with people trying to escape and how the wall impacted them there. But that is a gross oversimplification of the lives of the GDR citizens, how they lived and how they tried to leave. For a citizen in the GDR, life could be good if you followed all the rules or it could be really hard if you wanted to do anything outside of the regulations or you disagree with the politics, and that made life challenging or outright dangerous for many people in the GDR. Withholding all of the stories and lives of the people from East Germany is dangerous because there is so much to learn from how these citizens were treated or in the case of Der Zug in die Freiheit, how they escaped the east. It is for those reasons that Der Zug in die Freiheit is such an important film. This film, while maybe being dramatized, helps to show the reality for many people in the GDR, which is not shown as often. There is a new side to

I have seen the video of the people running to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG/BRD) or West German embassy in Prague and climbing over the walls, but it was always show as clip and never expanded on. First of all to see the people running and knowing that it is actual footage from that time is crazy. To know the story and backstory more makes it even more powerful to see how far these people came for the chance to leave. It is so easy to see the desperation in the refugee’s movements, like them abandoning their cars in the streets or handing their babies to strangers so they can get over the fence. Being able to see the sheer numbers of people crowding into the embassy makes the film worth the time because people can show all the facts and figures they want but there is nothing like seeing thousands of people crowding together and sleeping on stairs to make it