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🇩🇪 Se cumplieron 30 años de la caída del muro de #Berlin y así lo celebró el @HerthaBSC antes del partido contra el RB Leipzig.
Les contamos un par de detalles de lo que ocurrió ayer👇
#mauerfall30 #BerlinWall30 #MuroDeBerlin #BerlinWall
Les contamos un par de detalles de lo que ocurrió ayer👇
#mauerfall30 #BerlinWall30 #MuroDeBerlin #BerlinWall
@HerthaBSC "Juntos contra los muros. Juntos por Berlín" decía el muro que dividía a la cancha. El hecho simbólico fue muy fuerte cuando los dos equipos salieron a hacer la preparación física y el muro los dividía.
#BerlinWall30 #MuroBerlin #MuroDeBerlin
#BerlinWall30 #MuroBerlin #MuroDeBerlin
@HerthaBSC @centrofobalok @ApuntesdeRabona @HerthaBSC_ES @HerthaBertin @HerthaBSC_EN @BILD_HerthaBSC @HerthaBubis @HerthaBSCeSport @news5_hertha @HerthaTV Además, los hinchas del @HerthaBSC_ES se hicieron participes del homenaje. En la tribuna principal los hinchas levantaron una imagen de la Puerta de Brandeburgo, que es la antigua puerta de entrada a #Berlín y uno de los principales símbolos de la ciudad.
#MuroDeBerlin
#MuroDeBerlin
#BerlinWall30
On this day 30 years ago I was twenty, and a student in East Berlin. I was at a party when we heard the news. Something I thought impossible all my life had happened - the wall was open. /1
On this day 30 years ago I was twenty, and a student in East Berlin. I was at a party when we heard the news. Something I thought impossible all my life had happened - the wall was open. /1
We grabbed our beers and went to the checkpoint at the #Tränenpalast (palace of tears) where a big crowd was already waiting to be let through and on the S-Bahn train to West Berlin. And unbelievably, the border guards let us go! /2
When the train crossed the border between East and West the whole train cheered, and tears were shed... Once in West Berlin we made our way to the Brandenburg Gate, just following the huge crowds moving down the ‘Strasse des 17. Juni’… /3
30 years ago today the Berlin Wall fell. But in East Germany in the 1980s the authorities had a different concern: could Western computer games subvert the masses?
And the Stasi had it in for one computer above all: the Commodore 64! #BerlinWall30
And the Stasi had it in for one computer above all: the Commodore 64! #BerlinWall30
If you wanted a home computer behind the Iron Curtain you had two choices: buy a locally produced clone of a Western one...
...or navigate your way around import controls and try to get a Western one. It was tricky, but It was possible.
#1989 war ich 11 und vermisste meinen Vater unendlich. Ich hatte ihn 1 Jahr nicht mehr gesehen, denn er saß im Gefängnis wg. Republikflucht. Nov 88 hatte er versucht, die Grenze zwischen Bayern u.CSSR zu überwinden. Ich schrieb ihm Briefe, die Stasi zensierte. Ich weinte viel.
Täglich tröstendes Ritual: 20 Uhr. Er dachte an mich, ich an ihn. So hatten wir es ausgemacht. Ich fühlte mich ihm näher in diesen Minuten.
Die BRD kaufte meinen Vater im Okt 89 frei.
Am #9November wagte er sich nach Ostberlin, geschützt in der Menge euphorischer Ost-Heimkehrer.
Die BRD kaufte meinen Vater im Okt 89 frei.
Am #9November wagte er sich nach Ostberlin, geschützt in der Menge euphorischer Ost-Heimkehrer.
Er steuerte unsere gemeinsame Wohnung an, suchte meine Mutter und mich. Vergeblich, denn meine Mutter und ich überquerten zeitgleich die Grenze nach W-Berlin über Checkpoint Charlie.
Irgendwann nachts fanden wir uns in W-Berlin bei einem Bekannten.
Irgendwann nachts fanden wir uns in W-Berlin bei einem Bekannten.
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1/8 The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November, 1989, was one of the most significant events of the 20th century. But why was the Wall built in the first place❓ #BerlinWall30 #BerlinWall
1/8 The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November, 1989, was one of the most significant events of the 20th century. But why was the Wall built in the first place❓ #BerlinWall30 #BerlinWall
@bbcworldservice 2/8 As political change and civil unrest gripped Eastern Europe 30 years ago, a euphoric crowd of Berliners started to tear down the Wall. What led to that moment? 🤔 #BerlinWall30 #BerlinWall
3/8 Shouts of “the Wall must go” began two years earlier. David Bowie was among the performers at a 1987 concert in West Berlin that led to riots #BerlinWall30 #BerlinWall bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
Nowadays, Germany can seem more disunited than ever before, but a day like this should still fill us with unalloyed joy.
I was lucky enough to be born into a united, democratic country. Many others were not. #BerlinWall30
I was lucky enough to be born into a united, democratic country. Many others were not. #BerlinWall30
For my family, the separation was a daily reality – something that had torn us apart. Long enough there was little hope of there ever being change.
When the wall came down it was proof that peaceful protest and slow and patient efforts can change the world for the better.
When the wall came down it was proof that peaceful protest and slow and patient efforts can change the world for the better.
There is still a lot of work – and it is hard work indeed – ahead of us until we can truly speak of a reunited country. The border and the regime that was the GDR might be gone, but the separation in many people’s minds lives on – even in my generation.
30 years today since the Berlin Wall came - here I am (a little younger) doing my small bit to knock it down...#BerlinWall30 #mauerfall30 #Mauerfall
I have never forgotten the moment I heard the news - I was at a conference of young Brits and (West) Germans at Wilton Park. The subject that afternoon was ‘Prospects for change in East Germany’...
We had just been told that with Gorbachev’s ‘glasnost’ and ‘perestroika’ it was just possible that within the next 10-15 years the Wall might be opened and even ‘conceivable’ that within our lifetimes Germany might be re-united...
I'm in the Speccie today, writing on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
#mauerfall30
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/have-w…
#mauerfall30
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/have-w…
I remember 10 years ago, around the 20th anniversary, I also gave a talk on the subject. It was almost exclusively backward-looking. I didn't relate it to anything happening in Britain at the time, because it didn't seem relevant.
This time is a bit different, because:
This time is a bit different, because:
die komplette Pressekonferenz vom 09.11.1989, Schabowski (DDR) ist seit kurzem @YouTube: #mauerfall30 #BerlinWall30 #Mauerfall hab's mir eben angesehen: bizarr, aufschlussreich, die bürokratische Rationalität am Werk
@YouTube draußen fliegt ihnen der Staat um die Ohren, und sie: Parteikonferenz einberufen, "es haben bis jetzt 16 Diskussionsredner das Wort ergriffen"... es ist alles sehr kompliziert Hilfsausdruck
@YouTube ab min 33:55 bericht zu genossen modrows Referat über die anstehenden Wirtschaftsreformen, der habe nämlich darin schon "die Konturen einer Art Regierungserklärung durchblicken lassen" auf Basis "einer kritischen und gründlichen Analyse unserer wirtschaftlichen Situation"
Seen from space, Berlin is still divided by street lighting. 30 years after the fall of the #BerlinWall, the former division between the East and West parts of the city is noticeable from the International @Space_Station. Can you spot the difference?
📸: @astro_tim Kopra, 2016.
📸: @astro_tim Kopra, 2016.
@Space_Station @astro_tim @ESA_de @esa @ESA_History @ISS_Research @cities4tnight @pmisson @ESA_EO The yellow lights correspond to East Berlin, where orange sodium lamps lit most of the streets today. The white glow comes from the brighter LED lamps in West Berlin. #BerlinWall30
📸: @astro_andre, 2012.
📸: @astro_andre, 2012.
@Space_Station @astro_tim @ESA_de @esa @ESA_History @ISS_Research @cities4tnight @pmisson @ESA_EO @astro_andre 🤔 What will your city look like from space in 30 years? #BerlinWall30
Look at more beautiful night-time pictures of cities to pass the time, and help #citizenscience project ‘Lost at night’ compare cities light pollution over time!
esa.int/Science_Explor…
Look at more beautiful night-time pictures of cities to pass the time, and help #citizenscience project ‘Lost at night’ compare cities light pollution over time!
esa.int/Science_Explor…
