Beyond the Wall: The Other Germans. 1970 BBC documentary on East Germany

Beyond the Wall: Tuesday s Documentary First broadcast: Tue 22nd Sep 1970, 21:20 on BBC One The Other Germans Ignorant of democracy but hungry for the West they cannot visit, the 17 million East Germans are a force that could decide the fate of Russia s European Empire. For most of the past decade they have been isolated by the Berlin Wall and a fortified border over 600 miles long. Cold War attitudes have been slowest to melt in East Germany but this summer for the first time the German Democratic Republic opened its borders for three weeks to let in a BBC film crew. Tonight we see the first fulllength report by a British television team on the life of the other Germans Beyond the Contributors Director: Peter Ceresole Producer: John Walker