Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted. They could not cross the border to the West whenever they liked.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War - and part of the winning side of the Cold War.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

These were the things that the government supplied you with - in turn, of course, demanding obedience. But you must not imagine that it was a constant feeling of outrage that was in the minds of people and the hearts of people.