European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse T Berlin Hopes to meters i have to go Long Detour around refugees line up for processing at the Hegerberg Camp in West Germany. Overage of Fher Fig of from East Germany. St refugees Tell s that they on and take Only Budapest. West German embassy gives refugees waiting in transit Camps new passports while Hungary negotiates with . And the West. The Iron curtain reopened at Midnight Sun Day sept. 10. 200 Miles is Joelo Lutz a refugee from Stendal East Germany shows newly arrived East germans scan the bulletin Board of a new West German passport As his daughter at the vhf Hofen refugee Camp near Passau looking Steffi looks on. For Job openings. A Beautiful apartment and a new he left because of dissatisfaction Wilh a political system that had Little room Lor dissent of instance he Lound the Kamp Gruppen the task Force that puts Down demonstrations abhorrent. These Are Ordinary men lighting against Ordinary earlier he had been optimistic when Mil Hail Gorbachev endorsed reforms in Russia and Pica Stroika let a Bicalho of fresh air into the commune. A orld but after the massacre this summer in China s Tiana men Square he concluded. There is no end " to his wife and daughter took no Money. Just clothes and a photo album the West germans especially those who Are older and lived through the aftermath of world War ii Are welcoming the refugees Back into Tho fold by filling bulletin boards with oilers for Obs and temporary lodging red Cross workers pass out hot reals and donated clothes to the new arrivals. The refugees Are Young with an average age of 27 they re coming with children and say they saw no future for themselves in a country where the economic Structure in t conducive to owning a washing machine a Walkman and fashion to shirts. They want to be free thinking and free travelling. They want to own a car without wailing decades Lor delivery of a Smoky two stroke vehicle. Although two thirds of Iho refugees have relatives or friends in the West they hopi to establish Independent lives dial Hasche about 20 and a Painter from East Berlin made most of his journey on a motorcycle. All he brought with him. To said was Hope. All he wanted from the West was to live in Freedom and to live like a late monday night Eastern cars outnumbered those from the West on the Passau to Regensburg autobahn. On a Bridge crossing it and also overlooking the Hegerberg tent City two West germans from a nearby town stopped got out of their car and stared at the flood lighted Camp below. Their neckties loosened they tried to see beyond the optimism of this latest rustling of Tho Iron curtain. The refugees one said they have had problems. But they Are not members of our society if the Wall goes Down All the East germans would go West Iho men said and they wondered How their country could afford to take them All in. And the Guys who come Here they re the opposition one of the men said if the opposition is Over Here maybe change will go More slowly there they did t quite seem to approve of what they saw. Still As they watched above the autobahn the Little Eastern cars kept coming. Tho Little revolution continued. Nptember16,l989 the stars and stripes Page 15
