New Interview with Ralph Hänel
"Cold War Storyteller"

Since May 22nd 2022 at the fabulous Time For Your Hobby Podcast show with Alex.

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And I know this might be a really tough question to answer, but with all these meaningful items in your collection, is there 1 that just speaks to you more, that you have a stronger bond with?

1 important thing is here from the Spy Trader, this letter, was 1 of those strange, weird stories where you seem to have kind of an out-of-body experience.

I was already being questioned by the secret service for a couple of months, sometimes day and night, the interrogations where 1 is the father type, the other 1 is the kind of same age, tough friend who says, hey, we've got to go through it, you have to tell us everything.

And the next 1 kind of the office type with old with old glasses with an old frame who says, Oh, I'm not sure what we're doing here.

I'm just trying to do my job not to get fired something and then 1 day I was by the guards from the pre-trial prison the East German secret service had in every 1 of their buildings in every major city they had their own pre-trial prison in there what most people didn't even know And I was brought into the interrogation office and there all the interrogators were standing and they threw this letter that I have lying next to me onto the table, Read and respond.

And then I just read on top of it, Professor Dr.

Wolfgang Vogel also admitted to the courts of West Berlin.

And this was, I'm not sure how to describe it, there were 2 main lawyers in East Germany back then that did the majority of cases of political prisoners and this was, I don't know, like this future golden ticket into the free world.


Speaker 0: And I know this might be a really tough question to answer, but with all these meaningful items in your collection, is there 1 that just speaks to you more, that you have a stronger bond with?

Speaker 1: I think this changes from time to time. 1 important thing is here from the Spy Trader, this letter, was 1 of those strange, weird stories where you seem to have kind of an out-of-body experience. I was already being questioned by the secret service for a couple of months, sometimes day and night, the interrogations where 1 is the father type, the other 1 is the kind of same age, tough friend who says, hey, we've got to go through it, you have to tell us everything. And the next 1 kind of the office type with old with old glasses with an old frame who says, Oh, I'm not sure what we're doing here. I'm just trying to do my job not to get fired something and then 1 day I was by the guards from the pre-trial prison the East German secret service had in every 1 of their buildings in every major city they had their own pre-trial prison in there what most people didn't even know And I was brought into the interrogation office and there all the interrogators were standing and they threw this letter that I have lying next to me onto the table, Read and respond.

And then I just read on top of it, Professor Dr. Wolfgang Vogel also admitted to the courts of West Berlin. And he said, we have received notice. We're taking over your case. And this was, I'm not sure how to describe it, there were 2 main lawyers in East Germany back then that did the majority of cases of political prisoners and this was, I don't know, like this future golden ticket into the free world.

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Interview with Ralph Hänel: "Cold War Storyteller" at Time For Your Hobby Podcasts