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Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, readers from The Times and @berlinerzeitung share their memories of that historic night. A thread of some of their stories is below thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ni…
Helmut Lück was living in East Berlin near the Gethsemane Church, which was a meeting point for opponents of the regime thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ni…
Klaus Ewert saw himself as a family man who was comfortably wealthy in East Germany. He went to the demonstration at the Palace of the Republic thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ni…
Günther Wilke was living a hundred metres from the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing. He describes the day the border opened thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ni…
Utta Winter had a family friend visiting from Hamburg in her home in Lichterfelde, West Berlin thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ni…
Kerstin Müller was 19 when the wall came down and she was working on the nightshift at the East Berlin Central Radio Station thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ni…
For more experiences of the fall and the aftermath click the link thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ni…
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