The cutting edge of East German electronics, circa 1990

Karlheinz Jardner visited the east immediately after the wall came down. [Spiegel.de]

1. [Anonymous]

   The so-called “shrunken cities” of East Germany look eerily like parts of Detroit and Cleveland today.

2. [acb]

   That’s the cutting edge of East German consumer electronics. The Stasi has much more sophisticated technologies.

3. [SharpieSniffer]

   I lived in Germany 1990 – 1993. It was a joyful chaotic and surreal time for everyone. When the wall fell the people from East Germany streamed into the west in a flood. Their trabis would be stuffed to the gills with all their belongings and they would poke along in the right-hand lane, not fast enough to venture into the slipstream of the faster autobahn lanes. Many times the old trabis couldn’t hack it at all. We saw many wrecked trabis abandoned on the side of the road, their plastic panels melted into puddles under roasted skeletons.

   Those pictures – they brought back a lot of memories.