“Kerry regales Berliners with tales of divided city”
I remember Berlin when it was divided. I went through Checkpoint Charlie (in uniform), walked around East Berlin, saw it myself.
Very interesting how John Kerry “regaled” about the place. We all know on which side of that “divide” Mr. Kerry stood, as a young man.
When I was a civilian employee at Ramstein AB in the 70s some friends and I went to W. Berlin via the troop train. We traveled through E. Germany and I commented to the friends when we got into W. Berlin that it was like being in a negative print of a picture and that when we crossed the border into the West the negative print had developed into a full color picture. That was how dramatic the differences were between E. and W. Germany. Scary and that thought has stayed with me all these years.
1946 Communications Squadron, Tempelhof Central Airport, 1984-1988.
“Some of the East German police were rude and suspicious. Others were suspicious and rude.”
I can hear Joseph Cotten's voice in the background, "I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm - Constantinople suited me better..."