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Listen to the English series of two German books on the subject of contemporary history. It begins with an adventurous escape from the GDR.

In his real-time diary, the author describes a true crime for which he was sentenced to prison in 1984.

“The 18-Year-Old Who Wrote a Note and Disappeared“ is the sequel to his father's memoirs “The Bright Side of the Doom”, which were published as a book in 2016. Both stories are based on facts.

The diary starts on Friday, January 6, 1984. To be continued…



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