In this web exclusive, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, author of “Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021,” speaks with correspondent Mark Phillips about her childhood in East Germany, where she received care packages from family members in West Germany who, she said, “smelled of the West”; be aware of surveillance by the secret police and avoid political indoctrination; and his emotions during the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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