Samuel Meffire: “I will be a Saxon until my last breath”

2023-04-26 16:05:00

WELT: Mr. Meffire, was the security problem for foreign-looking people a reason for you to go to the police at the end of the GDR?

Samuel Meffire: Yes, but I wouldn’t reduce it to the fact that the dark bustle on the street drove me to the police station. I was more looking for a last remnant of cohesion in my surrogate family in the GDR. The picture is more like a piece of cake, I only really stayed with the police on the second try.

Heinz Eggert: When the boy was pushed off the tram.