The Berlin Wall - Twenty Years
One of the symbols of communism is the famous car of the day, the Trabant. A car that most people had to wait ten years to own and probably kept until death.
I saw one of these beauties on my trip to the former east Germany last year. A perfectly preserved "Trabi" as the nostalgic former East Germans liked to call it.
For interested readers here is the history of the Berlin Wall that divided Germany for too many years.
A photo gallery of then and now can be found here.
Labels: German Trip
posted by Rositta @ Monday, November 02, 2009
6 Comments:
It looks a wee bit small. I'm amazed at how well it's been kept!
By our standards it's teeny, but it did hold four adults and some luggage. Most East Germans were thrilled to finally get one after a ten year wait. It's still fondly remembered these days and there seems to be a bit of Ostalgie (a word that combines east (ost)and nostalgia) happening there.
Wow, beautiful. Great picture of it.
That is a well-kept Trabi! I looked at all the 43 pictures in the gallery, and was reminded of how insane it all was, the whole population was in the "naughty corner"!
It's so adorable haha :)
I saw an old photo yesterday of the back of a Trabant with a couple inside and an Yves St-Laurent shopping bag in the back - after the wall fell down, of course! It was such an ironic photo.
It was well kept for sure. Did you all know that it was made mostly of cardboard? I didn't write about the wall {die wende) this year but I was very emotional about it...
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