Berlin, East and West
Post-war events have shaped my attitudes in life. The war in Korea, the suppression of the revolution in Hungary, the Suez and the Cuba crises, all happened in the period when I grew up. Of course there was also the political focal point Berlin. I remember little of the blockade of West Berlin in 1948, but a lot about the uprising there in 1953 and even more of the building of the Wall in 1961. It existed for 38 years, only a transient page in history; however, for me it is more than half of a lifetime. Oddly enough I have only a limited association of Berlin with Nazism. That is my dominant feeling in Nuremberg. A visit to the Reichsparteitaggel鋘de (now a second hand car trading place) brings to life what you have seen in films only: the marching, the songs, the screaming of the leaders, the shouts of the crowds. Back to Berlin: I was there for the first time in 1986. It was a rainy, cold November day. I was standing on a platform near the Reichstag where you could see East-Berlin: the front post of the Empire of Evil. At that moment my only thought was: this will last forever, Eastern Europe is lost, the Iron Curtain will never be lifted again. In school I learned that in the end democracy will always prevail, but at that location the opposite seemed to be true: systems with sufficient cynicism and contempt can stand for longer than a lifetime. The Wende of 1989 was a complete surprise to me. I followed the events with intense attention. The real emotion came three years later when I was back in Berlin in 1993. I was in tears when I walked through the Brandenburger Tor for the first time. It is over I thought, a new period in history has started! Simultaneously, I realized how much had to be done to bridge the gaps, both the material and the immaterial ones.
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第四届固体废物管理与技术国际会议)
北京
英文
87
2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）