作家的那篇文章顺利地在西德的《明镜》杂志上发表。
我们完全可以想象，这篇文章引起的“地震”
On average, a man buys 2.3 pairs of shoes each year, reads 3.2 books.
And in each year there are 6,743 studentsgraduating with straight As.
But there is one statistics thatgoes unpublished
which might have been calculatedinto the natural deaths.
If you call the National SecurityAgency and ask them,
How many people kill themselvesfor being suspected as related tothe Western Germany,
they won't tell you a word,
and they'll write down your namecarefully.
This is all for the country's safety.
All those dead people, are for the country's safety and well being.
German Democratic Republic has stopped counting the number of suicides since 1977.
Suicides as we know,they were already for the best.
Because they couldn't stand their liveslike that, without bleeding,without passion.
Death was all they could choose.Death was their only hope.
Since 9 years ago when we stopped to count suicides, only one country in Europe has higher death counts than Eastern Germany:
Hungary.
以上是电影中提及的文章的英文译文。
这篇文章，揭露了东德当时的自杀率居高不下，在欧洲只有匈牙利的自杀率高过东德。人们因为丧失希望而自杀，而政府从1977年开始就停止对外公布自杀人数，原因非常简单，“民主德国是世界上最好的国家”。
作家与朋友们庆祝文章顺利发表。而这篇文章也给Wiesle带来了巨大的麻烦。 |
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