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Taken while studying Commercial law ( then i was still preparing my Notarial career ) and laying on the grass in the Babelsberg Neues Garten . The bridge on the background is the Glienicker Brucke that just turned out to be a very important checking point and "bloody" border between the two German countries during the Cold War period...Let´s imagine we travelled back on time and then , on the left side we would be placed in Potsdam , Brandenburg , that belonged to the Communist ´"Honeckerised" DDR . Just some meters to the right side by simply crossing the bridge we could "easily"?? arrive in West Berlin , Berlin Wannsee, that , on the other hand , was part of the Federal Republic of Germany (West , capitalist, Germany)

My father in law ,Peter , who´s actually a very German man ,usually tells me intriguing stories about those hard days when he used to be about to cross the "line"... but the dangerous conditions , strict controls with big chances of being shot dead ,led him definitively to desist on his hazardous adventure . Nowadays and paradoxally , the good man , grazing the peaks of his 70 years old , daily crosses by foot that "frontier" (the same that used to steal great part of the dreams and nightmares from his youth ) from Potsdam (left) to Berlin Wansee (right) in order to go to work in the Pfauen Insel , Berlin ...