DDR Museum

This guide to the DDR Museum in Berlin traces the decade-long waiting list East Germans faced for a Trabant, the humble two-stroke car that came to symbolize the whole country's patience. You'll hear how ethnologist Peter Kenzelmann, unable to find a museum that told this everyday side of East German life, opened one on the bank of the Spree in 2006, built on a simple rule: touch everything. Listen for what made a used, rattling Trabant worth more than a brand new one.