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#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
