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After The Wall

by Jana Hensel

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Hensel was born in Leipzig, East Germany, in 1976 and was 13 when the Berlin Wall fell. This memoir, a bestseller in Germany, portrays the disorientation of her generation, whose upbringing under communism ended abruptly with the integration of East and West Germany.

YouthPolitics and governmentTeenage girlsBiographyAdolescent girlsGermany, politics and government, 1990-Germany, biographyGermany (east), social conditionsYouth, germany