My partner Hans Hoffbauer,who has died aged 71 of cancer, was born in Leipzig during the 1945 allied bombing raids of Germany. He grew up in the austerity of postwar East Germany with memories of the 1953 uprising and waving to Nikita Khrushchev’s passing cavalcade.
His family fled to West Germany in 1960, or just before the wall went up,leaving 15-year-mature Hans to travel alone to Berlin to catch the S-bahn in the eastern sector and disembark in the west – a simple strategy, but strictly forbidden.
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Source: theguardian.com