Beyond Berlin // The unheralded allures of East Germany

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: May 20, 1990| Author: | Copyright information

ZINNWALD, East Germany The wursts, a pair of fatty cholesterol nightmares, lurked on little cardboard trays with their hard rolls and dollops of mustard. The local cola was slightly flat. An early-afternoon drunk stared up from his beer and schnapps to watch me pay the frowsy matron of the roadside Imbiss in the East German hamlet of Zinnwald, just over the border from Czechoslovakia.

The two wursts and two colas totaled 2 Ostmarks and 40 pfennigs - 32 U.S. cents at the free-market exchange rate I'd received a week earlier from a West German bank in the Frankfurt airport. That put the ...

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