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Bettina Wegner
Although the German folk singer Bettina Wegner was born in West Berlin in 1947,
her parents were good party members and when the German Democratic Public was
created in 1949 her communist parents moved to East Berlin. Not only did the
young singer grow up behind the Iron Curtain she was also on the wrong side of
the Berlin Wall and experienced the oppression and control of the communist
state during her formative years. Her experiences in the communist sector of
Berlin turned her into a political activist and she began distributing leaflets
expressing concern about the invasion o...
