Journey through the land of eloquent silence; East Germany revisited

About this book

During the recent Cold War "thaw" Joseph Wechsberg, well-known writer for the New Yorker, was able to obtain one of the few visas given to foreign journalists by a reluctant East Germany. Ostensibly touring the area to compare it with the Germany he knew before the war, Wechsberg was accompanied by an official guide whose duty it was to see that he visited the most impressive factories, farms and housing projects, and to monitor, in so far as possible, his interviews. But beneath the flow of production facts and figures Joseph Wechsberg detected the vitally important story of the people themselves...