Edith Sheffer: In Their Own Words

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Assistant professor Edith Sheffer is a historian of modern European history whose research centers on social and cultural change in 20th century Germany.

In her most recent publication, "Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain," Sheffer examines the role that German citizens played in perpetuating the physical boundaries that separated them.

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  • Her statement that "It goes without saying that the infamous Iron Curtain was not as impenetrable as is often believed" (at humanexperience.stanford.edu/b­urnedbridge) is an insult to the several hundred people that were killed at the border while trying to escape!

  • Prof. Sheffer's theory that "the wall in the head propelled the wall in the ground" (at 6:30) is absolute nonsense. Apparently she is not aware that the one and only reason the border was fortified by East Germany was the ever-increasing number of people fleeing from east to west. My dad needed two attempts and an experienced "escape agent" to flee from east to west - and that was over the "green border" in a rural area and before any wall had been built.

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