Berlin, Germany – In 1979. In 1979. In 1979. In 1979. In 1979. In 1979, Kin Ingi lived with his parents in Hanoi, who worked as an electrician in a power plant and his 12 -year -old sister in a bedroom apartment.
They shared the toilet and outdoor kitchen area with their neighbors. One of them, an old woman, sometimes this, then seven years old and his sister will take care of.
He remembers the cold, smooth tiled floor during the summer heat. He listened to the voice of the living road and occasionally the sound of the tram beyond the door of the green steel.
Four years ago, in 955 55, the North Vietnamese Communist army defeated the United States-aligned soldiers in South Vietnam and took the entire country under a party system that was in power today.
It was a rare Chinese mixed Hoa Kiu minority. People like him, especially in the early stages of war, felt unsafe.
Vietnam remembers how the children turned from him after China’s inheritance at the time of his heritage in 1978.
He said, “Some even threw stones at me. It was very shocking and I did not understand what was going on at that time.”
The family decided to leave. His parents sold their valuables, and the boat started to a dangerous and expensive trip to Hong Kong. Despite the security guarantee, approximately two million people will finally leave this way.
At that time, those who were afraid of their future under the new Communist Officer Under can choose to rehabilitate in one of the three countries of West Germany, Australia or the United States.
The selection was not available for long. When the uncle left Vietnam only three months later, people were only allowed to relocate to the United States.
His parents chose West Germany because he believed that he gave a better work-life balance than the United States.
The fracture in Vietnam divided the mirror in Germany, with the support of the USSR-aligned East Germany, officially supported the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the West West Vietnam South Vietnam.
After reaching Hong Kong, the family traveled Frankfurt by plane to Frankfurt and then at Thegel Airport in West Berlin, where he was waiting for a journalist, eager to document the country of the so -called “boat people”.
“I don’t remember much from the arrival, but I remember many journalists there to take photos of us.”
The family was given an apartment in a social housing complex where thousands of people lived near the wall of Berlin in the west. His father became a transport worker, while his mother had a cleaner in the nursery of the children.
At that time, other social housing says, the position of the flat with heating and personal toilets in the middle was good.
But the transition was not easy. It seemed as different as one of the only children in the minority background in his elementary school.
A different way
During the months of the end of the war, Vietnam signed a diplomatic relationship with GDR and after a few years, Hung Mai opened a different way to fly abroad.
At the age of 21, she left Hanoi to Moscow and then traveled to Shonfield Airport in East Berlin. She was in the first group of contract workers and was soon worked in a factory who made drinking glasses.
Now in the 64 64 year, Mai has a 27 -year -old boy, and since she came to GDR, she runs a textile shop in the village where she lived. For personal privacy reasons, Mai requested Al Jazzar to use a nickname to tell her story.
On April 30, Vietnam marked 50 years after the end of the war. For the large Vietnamese-greenery diesfora, who came as a refugee and contract worker, this year’s milestones have created a feeling of reflection.
Mai said that she was happy on the anniversary.
She said, “My father resisted against the French colonies and then my big brother fought against the American people. Therefore, it is very meaningful for me to end this war because in all these wars my family had left blood,” she said.
Her brother, who reached Germany in the 1990 1990s, followed her footsteps. His family joined him two decades later.
His daughter, 26 -year -old Diu Lea Hoang, now lives in Prenzalor Berg, which is a similar neighborhood. It is a region of the German capital, in the past GDR, now is the home of Kozi Cafe, Posch restaurants, yoga studio and rich traveling families where English is heard on the street rather than German.
“It is a very important aspect for me to see what my family has to do, and I know how flexible they are. I know that I didn’t take it out and I can’t even imagine what it is for my grandparents,” when she heard about the rice war career.
“I confess to the sacrifice they made for a good life so that I can be born and live in peace,” Art historian Lia said.
This, now 53 53 and two children’s father, is a postDocortel researcher in the Asian German Diespora at the University of Tubengen, and a PhD in cultural studies. He is a friendly, free and wise of complex history, he is also part of it, he also said that the events of the monument have felt important.
He said, “There is a intellectual and cultural discussion through which we are trying to interpret this history and what is the meaning of this history of this history living in German-Vietnamese Dispora,” he said.
“Questions in private and public conversations, articles, books, books and artwork. And knowing more about this history will improve our confidence in German society, because we, we can find more about the past experience that we, younger generations, personal levels, allowing us to connect the past.”
In 1979. In the approximately 000 35,3 refugees, West came to West Germany, while 000 1,3 contract workers started reaching the GDR in 1980 in.
When Germany combined in 1990 1990, it brought together at least physically two communities.
“In the GDR, people were proud to show international unity and went into the hands of capitalism, while the West German government saw the Vietnam War as part of the world struggle against Communism,” said German historian Andreas Margari.
She said that some of her relatives still mention her when Vietnamese pronunciation in the south.
“They are not stressful or they do not behave differently, but they literally take into account the pronunciation, like” Oh, this person is south “. They do not go into any more detail, but there is history because there is history. With people like war giants, they cannot share their experiences and understand others.” Unified Germany, more harmony. “
She further said that her generation has “more likely and space for communication” because she recently visited Vietnamese German art history student and remembered what he did a lot about what to say.
Mai agreed that there are many opportunities to meet the southern people in her life, yet she does not feel any animosity.
She said, “Although Vietnam has suffered a lot, we are all Vietnamese and we have come to Germany for a better life for ourselves,” she said.
