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Neubrandenburg, April 2021

In September 1987, Bob Dylan didn't sell enough Tickets for his show in West Berlin. His promoters decided to relocate the concert to East Berlin - and 60.000 people came.
Four of them, Thomas D, Sybille, Thomas F. and Angela, all in their twenties, did not make it home alive: By arriving in their hometown Neubrandenburg their tiny Trabant got run over by a Soviet Army truck, steered by two heavily drunk soldiers. The four young revellers died on the spot. Whilst the sheer horror of that accident caused outrage throughout East Germany, authorities did their best to cover up the circumstances. For Angela's parents, life stopped on the 17th of September 1987.
DER SPIEGEL reconstructed the tragedy:
spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/bob-dylan-die-ddr

Scene of the accident
Short notice in the local paper that Angela's parents have kept until this day
Hans and Helga Wotin, who lost their daughter September 17th 1987, are going through local papers that reported sparsely about the accident due to orders from the authorities
Hans and Helga Wotin lost their daughter Angela on September 17th 1987
The parents had to fight even for the right to place an obituary in the local paper. Authorities did not appreciate the expression 'senseless death', but the family insisted.
Portrait of Angela Wotin in her parents' living room
Frank Etzold served in the East German Volkspolizei and examined the circumstances of the accident
Former police station where one of the Soldiers turned himself in the next day whilst his comrade tried to escape.

Neubrandenburg, April 2021

In September 1987, Bob Dylan didn't sell enough Tickets for his show in West Berlin. His promoters decided to relocate the concert to East Berlin - and 60.000 people came.
Four of them, Thomas D, Sybille, Thomas F. and Angela, all in their twenties, did not make it home alive: By arriving in their hometown Neubrandenburg their tiny Trabant got run over by a Soviet Army truck, steered by two heavily drunk soldiers. The four young revellers died on the spot. Whilst the sheer horror of that accident caused outrage throughout East Germany, authorities did their best to cover up the circumstances. For Angela's parents, life stopped on the 17th of September 1987.
DER SPIEGEL reconstructed the tragedy:
spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/bob-dylan-die-ddr

Scene of the accident Short notice in the local paper that Angela's parents have kept until this day Hans and Helga Wotin, who lost their daughter September 17th 1987, are going through local papers that reported sparsely about the accident due to orders from the authorities Hans and Helga Wotin lost their daughter Angela on September 17th 1987 The parents had to fight even for the right to place an obituary in the local paper. Authorities did not appreciate the expression 'senseless death', but the family insisted. Portrait of Angela Wotin in her parents' living room Frank Etzold served in the East German Volkspolizei and examined the circumstances of the accident Former police station where one of the Soldiers turned himself in the next day whilst his comrade tried to escape.
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