THE TRUTH AND OTHER LIES is the chronicle of a family and of two generations forced by circumstance to live in worlds where oppression, lies and duplicity threat-ened their very existence. It is a story which relives the bridge between the Nazi era and that of Communism and between the Communists and the rekindling of liberty in what we knew as East Germany. It is a story of hope and love and survival and of the dignity of the spirit in times of peril. It is a warn-ing to those afraid to speak the truth.