There’s a new online archive that’s collected hundreds of hours of home movies made by people who lived in East Germany. They show people getting married, playing with their kids, living everyday lives. The “Open Memory Box” is an archive of an East German culture that many in the East believe disappeared with reunification. Kevin Caners reports from Berlin.
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