Pentagon staffer John Masters visited East and West Germany as a child before the wall fell. “When there was a wall in Berlin, I went up as a small boy through East Germany … we weren’t supposed to look outside the windows. I was glad to see it happen.”

One Inch Dreams created a short film featuring the slack line balloon stunt that has come to represent the essence of Wunderbar Together.

Is it Fernweh or Heimweh? German immigrants share their experiences living in 20th-century America.