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You're listening to the BBC World Service and now witness history with me Johannes

Dell. Today we'll return to 1979 when a group of Namibian children arrived in communist East Germany

escaping the war of independence fought by the Suapo Liberation Movement against occupying South African forces. All in all around a

liberation movement against occupying South African forces.

All in all, around 400 young children were flown to the then GDR,

a gesture of support from one socialist ally to another.

I've been talking to Zema Kamati who was four years old

when she got on a plane just before Christmas. I think the first impression was the snow. The big house and the snow. It was really a winter-like in a fairy tale.

And the first standard experience was of course Christmas.

There was a father Christmas who brought us presents and some children cried

because this man had a mask on, but we took the presence anyway.

Zema Camarti arrived in East Germany on December 18th, 1979.

It was a completely different world for a little girl who up to that point had only known life in Africa with her family.

I liked the part the most. This castle was surrounded by a beautiful park and I remember to begin with,

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