It brings to mind friend and Stasi agent, who in 1988 told me that East Germany could tear down the wall and East German people would stay. ... German newspaper, 63% of West Germans favored accommodating East Germans in the West shortly before the Wall fell. ..…
He seems to do it by accident, at the end of a press conference and in response to questions about the new rules for East German citizens leaving the country. . ... The former East German dissident and later speaker of the Bundestag lower house of parliament, Wolfgang..…
The article says that East German and Russian Soviet military came very close to calling out the tanks and firing on the crowds to preserve the quo. ..…
On November 9, 1989, East German border guards, overwhelmed by large crowds, threw open the gates to West Berlin, allowing free passage for the first time since the Berlin Wall was built. . ..…
These people fear only one thing: losing their meal tickets in the incestuous East German world their own pusillanimity and witless snobbery created in the first place. ..…