[Leica] East Berlin 1966 - Robert

[Robert Baron]

Thanks, Jean-Michel.  To be honest it would be a bit of a stretch to say
'they let me take pictures'; I had an M3 and it was mostly carried under my
coat.  I probably just looked like a tourist with a German camera.

Last year a law school professor friend asked me if I had been afraid when
I took these photos because if detained I would have had no constitutional
protections whatsoever.  Reflecting back as nearly as I can I think I - as
a second year law student in Europe for the summer then - never even
thought of that.  Which is a tribute to something I suppose but I'm not now
quite sure what.

--Bob

===On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Jean-Michel Mertz <j2m46 at hotmail.fr>
wrote:

> I love your pictures, Robert. The world they describe seems to be so far,
> almost unreal ... and yet you're talking about something that happened
> during our lifetime. I'm surprised, though, they let you take pictures! I
> visited the GDR in 1974 and no picture-taking was allowed for visitors from
> the West then.
> Cheers,
> JM
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> Jean-Michel Mertz
> Strasbourg
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