As a child , CNN 's Fred Pleitgen lived in East Berlin under the watchful eye of the government . His father Fritz , a journalist at a West German TV network , says the Stasi broke into the family flat . Fritz : Stasi 's agent was ` ` an audience of Western journalists with the East German government '' As time went on , the East German government 's restrictions grew tighter and tighter . ` Fred says : It 's amazing how far German capital has come since the Berlin Wall came down .
As a child , CNN 's Fred Pleitgen lived in East Berlin under the watchful eye of the government . His father Fritz , a journalist at a West German TV network , says the Stasi broke into the family flat . Fritz : Stasi 's agent was ` ` an audience of Western journalists with the East German government '' Fred says : It 's amazing how far German capital has come since the Berlin Wall came down .