20 Years
German Non-Violent Reunification Day
9th November 1989
The Man Who Opened the Gate
Harald Jäger
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the columnist Roger Cohen describes how a former East German border guard kept that fateful night peaceful, rather than filled with bloodshed.
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Victor Hormola
Emily B. Hager
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A Fateful Day, and the East Tasted Freedom
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By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Published: November 9, 2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall was so fine a moment, it takes effort to recall how spontaneous the breach really was.