How to pronounce “sheffer” in English

Edith Sheffer: So, compared to international relations today, the Cold War, in retrospect, can appear to be a simpler, steadier time.

Edith Sheffer: And then here you have workers crossing illegally.

Edith Sheffer: So the memory of the border is as important to understanding it today as what actually happened.

Edith Sheffer: So you have four mass crossings and then four returns to normalcy which I think makes the sensation of these mass crossings

Edith Sheffer: Now this argument is very easy to make for the immediate post war period when border policy and the two German states

Edith Sheffer: They were stealing mines from the border fortifications and selling them to West German and American service men on the other side.

Edith Sheffer: Even in the 70s and 80s the border was plagued by malfunctions, defunct trip wires, signal fences, heavy snowfall

Edith Sheffer: Crossing on a dare or something like that.

Edith Sheffer: Yeah, absolutely.

Edith Sheffer: Yeah and exactly as you say itís amazing to me two different cultures formed out of one formerly similar region.

Edith Sheffer: wow. Edith Sheffer: Yeah, youíve just made a lot of really interesting linkages between different phenomenonís.

Edith Sheffer: Yeah.

Edith Sheffer: On the cause of people living on the other side.

My name is Scott Sheffer and itís my pleasure to introduce Professor Edith Sheffer to all of you.

They were busy catching Naziís Edith Sheffer: They were busy rebuilding the economy, they were busy implementing new systems of government, the border was not a priority.

Edith Sheffer: And, in fact, the dynamic of this early border was not dissimilar to the US, Mexican border today.

I happened to have seen three of these walls in 1973 Edith Sheffer: Great.

quote, ìCame over the border again to visit us today.î Edith Sheffer: And although this kind of evidence is anecdotal there are such fragments in peopleís attics and conversations that

First it turns out the game was not actually over the border but no one knew where the border lay, Edith Sheffer: So it was entirely within the Soviet Zone because it was the Communist