This place is not only a museum telling the history of divided Germany and those who sought to escape East Germany but it´s still a living place. Since 2010 Marienfelde serves as temporary housing for refugees from all over the world. Here on this map, ehm, you can see the Marienfelde refugee center in the southwest of Berlin up to the year of ninety sixty one.There were so many people coming here that Marienfelde was overcrowded and there was not enough room at all for these people. So you had up to at times eighty more refugee camps in West-Berlin. Something that was very important for the atmosphere here was the presence of the GDR secret service, the Stasi.You had signs warning the refugees not to talk openly to others. Not to tell their names. And to be careful. So you see apart from all those personal stories, biographies connected to this place, it's also a, ehm, a place where you could observe very well the conflicts of the cold war, because everybody involved was here.Here you can see a refugee-apartment with furniture from the nineteen fifties. So this is the way it looked. in the fifties and of course you have to imagine many,many people in one room.In 1989 they had a situation that compares to the year of 1953 the place was overcrowded and again there were tents outside, the offices had to move out and there were mass accommodations in West Berlin, because Marienfelde couldn´t take everybody in.So there is the reasons for leaving but there's also the question: How the West received the refugees, what opportunities they had in the West, but also what problems in the "Golden West".