![]() ![]() Even her best friend Anna encourages her to keep quiet. She doesn't fully express this to anyone except her brother Fritz. 12-year-old Gerta misses her father and brother and hates the wall that imprisons East Berlin, the fear, and lack of freedom. The wall is now 12 feet high and guarded. Devastated, her mother, brother Fritz, and her were left in the East with no way to contact them. ![]() Her father, Aldous and brother Dominic were trapped on the other side. On Sunday morning, August 13, 1961, Gerta awoke to discover that a wall of barbed wire had been built through Berlin to separate East and West. Young Gerta is caught in the middle of the conflict when her father and brother are inadvertently trapped on the Western side while she, her mother, and brother are trapped in the East. East Germany was controlled by the communist government of the Soviet Union while West Germany was controlled by the United States, France and Great Britain. A Night Divided is set during the Cold War when the Berlin Wall was built. x x x Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!Workers of the world, unite! ![]()
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