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The unexpected fall of the Berlin Wall explained
Learn about the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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NARRATOR: The border crossing Bornholmer Straße - on the 9th of November, 1989, this place makes history. For 28 years, the wall has divided Berlin. Over 100 people died during their attempts to make it across the border.
ANDREAS RUDOLPH: "Every sparrow could fly from here to there, but it was easy for them - no controls and no problems. But the citizens here in the East weren’t allowed to do that."
NARRATOR: But in the summer of 1989, the Iron Curtain that separates the East from the West becomes more permeable. Thousands of East Germans flee across the Hungarian border. More and more GDR citizens want to leave their country. The ruling Socialist Unity Party wants to reduce the pressure and is ready to grant freedom to travel as announced in a press conference on the eve of the 9th of November. It’s a sensation, covered live on TV.
SABRINA BERNHÖFT: "I somehow couldn't believe it and went to get my mother. And she said, 'No, that's not possible.'"
NARRATOR: What Schabowski had overseen was that the announcement had been intended for the following morning. The border soldiers aren’t informed when masses of people want to make use of the new right to travel that very same evening. When the pressure becomes too great, the officers open the barriers at the Bornholmer Straße.
HELGA UNKRODT: "'It’s true, they’re letting us through.'"
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The Brandenburg Gate, a few meters from the Berlin Wall, was opened on 22 December 1989. The demolition of the Wall officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1994. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which formally took place on 3 October 1990.
Nov 8, 2019 · November 08, 2019. • 6 min read. For nearly 30 years, Berlin was divided not just by ideology, but by a concrete barrier that snaked through the city, serving as an ugly symbol of the Cold War....
