recalled Berliner Andreas Falge, one of the first to cross the East German border into the West on November 9th, 1989. For all of The Local's coverage on the Berlin Wall click HEREBerliners brought hammers and chisels when the Wall opened. That bumbling performance was broadcast on West German TV, which many easterners watched clandestinely, and it kicked off a human avalanche. Soon he stood with hundreds of others at the border crossing, facing nervous East German border guards who had also been utterly surprised by the dramatic turn of events. The next day, he went back to work in East Berlin, but the cinema was almost empty.

Source: The Local November 07, 2019 09:39 UTC