“And what did she tell you?” Church urged her to get to the point.
“She told me she was from a large extended family at home in Germany and that she regularly corresponded with many of her relatives. Apparently, two of her uncles had been trapped on the wrong side of the wall when it went up, imprisoning them in the GDR, as it was called, unable to return to the west. They'd been very young when the Berlin Wall was erected, but as they grew older, they both developed the urge to escape to the West and re-join their estranged family.” She looked from Church to Gable and sighed softly. “Their escape plan, like so many at the time, was discovered by the Stasi. They'd been betrayed by a so-called friend, a Stasi informer. I was surprised to learn that almost everyone in East Germany was an in
