The Legend of Rita This is also why she displays such profound disappointment at the end of the film when the Berlin Wall is toppled. It never crosses her mind that no one else she has met has ever truly believed in the GDR. The Legend of Rita Die Stille nach dem Schuß or "The Silence after the Shot" is a 2000 German film that was released in English as The Legend of Rita. The film focuses on collusion between the East German secret police, or Stasi, and the West German terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF). The fictional characters all have close parallels
More German than the Germans red flag on their whole street. This short account portrays why Jewish families were often described as "more German than the Germans." More German than the Germans The assimilated Jewish community in Germany, prior to World War II, has been self-described as "more German than the Germans". Originally, the comment was a "common sneer aimed at people" who had "thrown off the faith of their forefathers and adopted the garb of their Fatherland". The German assimilation, following the Enlightenment, was "unprecedented". The quote is sometimes ascribed to Chaim Weizmann. Following the Enlightenment, many European Jews regarded Germany as a particularly