![]() But such family news rarely gets past the censors. Harassed by Communist Party officials, her father snaps. It intensifies as the fencing that Hanna slipped through becomes fortified by barbed wire, watchtowers and the Berlin Wall. Their separation widens after Hanna marries an American army intelligence officer and moves to the United States. ![]() ![]() Hanna, the oldest daughter of a school principal in Schwaneberg, flees to the West, leaving behind her parents, a growing number of siblings and the taint of suspicion that her family will carry for decades. In East Germany in 1948, the relief of peacetime gives way to dismay over tightening Communist control. Stitched from memories collected on both sides, it’s a Cold War story Willner knows well. The Iron Curtain rises again in “Forty Autumns,” Nina Willner’s account of a German family divided after World War II. ![]()
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