Escape From Leipzig by Harald Fritzsch (PDF)

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With a foreword written by G *#x0027;t HooftIn the 1960s, Leipzig was the center of resistance in East Germany. Harald Fritzsch, then a physics student, contemplated escape. But before he left, he wanted to demonstrate to the government that they had gone too far when they destroyed St. Paul’s Church in May 1968. He accomplished that by unrolling a protest transparency in spectacular fashion. Despite the great efforts of the secret police, the STASI, the government was unable to find out who was responsible for this act. Soon after, together with a friend, Fritzsch began his journey to Bulgaria in order to escape into Turkey by traversing the Black Sea in a folding canoe. This was a daredevil endeavor, never done before.In this book, Harald Fritzsch — now a world-renowned physicist — portrays in captivating detail an authentic picture of the East German regime and the events of the late 1960s. Today, 40 years later, he critically takes stock of the events since German reunification.

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⭐This book gives the reader a fine description of the difficulties of living in, studying in and escaping from East Germany. It provides a first-hand account of the distruction of ancient St. Paul’s church in Leipzig by the GDR, a historic church that figures in the life of J. S. Bach and other German musicians. (St. Paul’s is currently being rebuilt by the German government.) The political prank protesting the church’s distruction by the government, which the author and a friend pull off during a Bach performance awards ceremony, is clever and effective, but soon makes the author and another friend decide to leave East Germany by folding boat across the Black Sea(!). Their escape would make a very exciting movie. The book was written by a German scientist, translated by another German scientist, and consequently has a number of interesting German-English passages which provide a nice conversational flavor. I enjoyed it.

⭐Escape from Leipzig is a story of a courageous demonstration of protest over the E. German destruction of a cathedral in Leipzig, and the subsequent escape of the protester-student to W. Germany, where he became an honored academic and advisor to the W. German government.Unfortunately, the hardback book is short(125pp.), competently if ineloquently translated from the original German, and outrageously overpriced at $40!!

⭐Great read. A look into a Socialist world many of us here in the west cannot imagine.

⭐It was an iteresting story and recalled memories of the way of life that I observed in Eastern Europe during the communist era.

⭐Although undoubtedly biased by my connections to Harald Fritzsch, I was surprised by the quality and involving nature of this tale of personal courage associated with his protests while he was a resident of East Germany and with his ensuing escape therefrom. It is an intimate account of a situation and an era that has an aura of genuine authenticity due to its very personal perspective. The translation from the german original is a bit awkward in places, but still very effective.

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