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Witness History: The GDR's Namibian children

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The GDR's Namibian children

BBC World Service - Witness History, The GDR's Namibian children

At Christmas 1979 hundreds of Namibian children were taken to East Germany

At Christmas 1979 hundreds of Namibian children were taken to East Germany to escape the war in their home country. They would stay there for almost 11 years.

On December 18th 1979 hundreds of Namibian children were taken to East Germany to escape the war in their home country. But after communism in Europe collapsed in 1989 the children were sent back to Africa and an uncertain future. Johannes Dell has been speaking to Selma Kamati who was just four years old when she found herself experiencing a snowy East German Christmas.

Photo: Selma Kamati (far right of picture) and some of the of the other Namibian children.

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