Fork in the road

Stasi prison July 23, 1986

The border must be close.

The Stasi officers move to the front.

There is still an awkward silence in the bus.

Traffic gets thinner now.

In the distance rolling hills with the fortification installations.

Some of the comrades in this bus got close and got caught years ago.

There is a fork dividing traffic.

Taking the road to Western Germany.

Everything is really unnerving now, unbearable tension.

 

*Testimony -> Start. This blog entry is part of a linear narrated testimony of the contemporary witness Jens Thieme who was imprisoned 1985-1986 as a political prisoner in various GDR prisons by the GDR Ministry of State Security. Stasi prison, Stasi jail, Stasi detention.