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In this episode, we hear the third and final part of Torsten Belgium's story

as he tells us about his first visit to West Berlin,

leaving the East German army and life after the GDR.

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Torsten telling us about life in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Berlin War.

Kind of an exciting time to have lived through.

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