Why The GDR Fascinates Me: Fred Esposito on His Love for Radio GDR and Why Preserving History is Important

We are interviewing some of our most special listeners this season in gratitude for your amazing contributions to make season 3 of this podcast so special. We are especially grateful to the listeners who financially contributed to this season via our Patreon. One of our contributors, Fred Esposito, has gone above and beyond this season as our lone Interflug member at $35 a month. Thank you so much for your generosity, Fred, as you really made the behind the scenes work for the podcast that much easier. For Fred's kindness, we sat down and talked about what fascinates him about the GDR. Fred and I share the same love for Frederick Kempe's book Berlin 1961. Like me, Fred believes we should do everything in our power to preserve history, which explains his generosity, and through Radio GDR, Fred has gained much knowledge as well as some new friends. Please enjoy my conversation with Fred, who was fundamental to making this podcast happen this year. Our ability to bring you stories from behind the Berlin Wall is dependent on monthly donors like you. Visit us at to contribute. For the price of a Berliner Pilsner, you can feel good you are contributing to preserve one of the most important pieces of Cold War history. If you feel more comfortable leaving us a review to help us get more listeners, we appreciate it very much and encourage you to do so wherever you get your podcasts or at . For discussions about podcast episodes and GDR history, please do join our Facebook discussion group . Just search Radio GDR in Facebook. Vielen dank for being a listener!

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Why The GDR Fascinates Me: Fred Esposito on His Love for Radio GDR and Why Preserving History is Important is an episode from Radio German Democratic Republic by Steven Minegar.

This episode is 56:33 long.

This episode was published on Dec 8, 2022.

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