German public television is retransmitting its coverage from the 9th of November 1989.
Right now: watch "live" as an East German apparatchik inadvertently promises the subjects of the GDR that they can immediately travel across the border to West Berlin.
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Right now: watch "live" as an East German apparatchik inadvertently promises the subjects of the GDR that they can immediately travel across the border to West Berlin.
pscp.tv/w/1DXxypykeYZJ…
This press conference was famously bungled, the promise of immediately opening the wall the consequence of a confusing turn of phrase.
But it's astounding how mundane it seems—e.g. debating the modalities of selecting delegates to a party conference that would never take place.
But it's astounding how mundane it seems—e.g. debating the modalities of selecting delegates to a party conference that would never take place.
At this point, it was only a matter of hours until people would be dancing atop the Berlin Wall.
But the apparatchiks are still talking about how they need to reorganize the media work of the SED in the confident assumption that it will continue to rule East Germany for decades.
But the apparatchiks are still talking about how they need to reorganize the media work of the SED in the confident assumption that it will continue to rule East Germany for decades.
