ABSTRACT

When the first East Germans freely crossed from East to West marking the beginning of the end for the Berlin Wall, it seemed as if a huge, impenetrable, physical barrier between the two worlds was disappearing forever. “Now Show Openness!” screamed a contemporary headline in Der Spiegel (The Mirror), the West German weekly magazine.3 But the openness, or transparency, many expected to result from the destruction of the wall has yet to fully materialize. As numerous writers have pointed out, the “wall in the head” is still there.4