[dfwgator]

Reminds me of a great film called “The Lives of Others”. It’s a German film about the Stasi. Check it out some day.

One of my all-time favorite movies.

[Gay State Conservative]

Years ago,when Germany was still divided,I visited Berlin. I made a trip to the Brandenburg Gate because it so iconic. While there an Army jeep pulled up and two British soldiers got out (we were in the "British Sector" of Berlin).

One of them walked toward the Wall and the other one joined me on the small observation platform I was on. They both had binoculars and were looking at the guards in the big tower just beyond the Wall. The soldier with me then started waving at the guys in the East German tower (it was only about 50 yards away). As he was waving he said to me "they hate it when we do this".I asked him "do they ever wave back?" and he said "are you kidding?"

I'll never forget it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Just FYI: did you know that Simon Weisenthal...the famous Nazi hunter...is on record as saying that in his opinion the Stasi was worse than the Gestapo? You've gotta be pretty damn nasty to be worse than the Gestapo.