"but a wall such as Trump could only dream of had to be built to stop them escaping, and many were killed trying."
A similar wall now exists in Israel - is that to keep people in or out?
East Germany was a poor country that never really got over the war.
It was also on the borders of the "Free West" and highly susceptible to foreign interference.
I want through that wall without difficulty - on a train - it was no different and probably a damn sight easier that if I wanted to fly from Shannon to America - I've never seen such security in my life - and up to fairly recently, so many American soldiers - some of them guarding untried suspects on their way to such health centres as Guantanamo.
These walls have two sides Keith
Jim Carroll