Originally Posted by
Diamat
I was 14-years old when it happened, still living in Germany. I distinctly remember that day. I came home from school, turned on the TV, and noticed all the channels reporting on the attack. It was insane to watch. My mom came home early from work, and she and my grandma speculated that a world war might break out (typical German mentality). So they went on a shopping spree and bought a bunch of food for storage. The next day in school, one of my classmates started crying, because her brother was in the military, and she thought that he would die in the war that is about to come. Most people thought war was about to happen and that the world was going to change fundamentally. After all, East Germans had experienced 4 different countries within less than a century (Weimar Republic, Third Reich, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany).