In the third installment of this series, Michelle (@shhellgames) and Ted (@ted_knudsen) interview American journalist Victor Grossman about his experience defecting to East German in the early 1950s and living through German reunification. Produced by Isaac Würmann (@wuermann) with help this week from Tom Wills (@tomwills). 

To learn more about Victor, check out his two books: 

• Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany
• A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee

And check out Victor's Berlin Bulletin on theleftberlin.com. 

Music by Lee Rosevere. Art by Franziska Schneider.