hard as fair. i even got white hairs out of. that shipman language he had a lot this gets me and they go to nicky to entrap let's just say you want to know their story gets her fighting and reliable information for migrants. one 5th of. it was the night when the seemingly inconceivable became reality the fall of the berlin wall 25 years later these events were recreated on the film set of bornholmer strasse and including the emotions that overcame many east german citizens as they massed at the wall that night their anger hope and determination. i can and hans you're going legler were also at the wall on the night of november

9th 1989 today there guests on a film set. it's amazing to watch 25 years later. i am i am i am i am glad. i can hunt you're going legler live to what was then communist east berlin for them the film set is like a journey back in time to the moment in which their lives and the country they lived in changed for ever. this most it's a very emotional moment for me watching this right now even though of course it's just a movie. trying to cut 2nd hans martin fleischer 1st met

each other on bornholmer bridge that night. she lived in the east and he lived in the west of the divided city. most inclusive with the people started to it makes me start to choke out but i feel like i want to join in but i have. an amazing moment it's like a journey back in time to this and. credible moment in history absolutely. for katherine and hans martin that chance meeting on the bridge sent their lives in a different direction. much c.s.k. lived in west berlin the filk of family in the east for years they were separated by a wall but they kept their friendship a lot. on the morning of november 9th 1909 the wall still seemed a fact of life impervious man and me holding. a

moving van was underway in the east berlin district of france lower back. it was headed to the villages apartment. the movers were there to pick up the bill because belongings after 3 years of waiting their half occasion to leave easter bunny for the west had been approved. they were due to leave on nov 13th 1809. i knew we don't really put out a few boxes of the things we were going to be allowed to take with us and put them in the in the movers came early in the morning of november 9th to our apartment to take them to look at his apartment when some goods room.

looks yes good lived on kaiser in west berlin. he's often. in funk in them and my father was here when the movers came out when i got home from work our apartment in the company in the back the full of moving boxes for the belonging to the vehicle family fights. and of milk a family had been friends for years they went on holiday together in hungary. 4 days later they were planning to see each other again in west. for their son your heart of the upcoming. but also. done avoidant no and up she planned a good guy policy with taken some sweets at his day and his arm and. also we couldn't take all of his toys so we'd source of the months and told him we could only keep the things that were the most important to him because we told him we'd bring the rest of his toys to his friends a day care. for the

family leaving communist east germany meant that they would leave everything behind their families their friends and their old way of life. the small. oh he thought it wasn't easy. we had many high months thinking we'd never be able to go home where we grow not and visit everyone . when was finished but you didn't know what the regime would do. we had that people who left would never allowed back to visit. but that night everything changed. 25 years later in the dressing room of

a film set up 500 people gathered to recount those events in a made for t.v. movie called bornholmer strasse a. for high k. and hans you're going legler the visit to the film set up the us like a journey into the southeast used to get because of money and means the couple were engineers at a state owned signaling technology company. nov 9th 1989 was a thursday a workday like any other for the young couple. who were raising our children homeless gemini and we had what we had everything we needed if you went. you have to remember my husband in hollywood we were an ordinary family going about our daily lives. we lived an ordinary life and we didn't call attention to ourselves i'm going to hit. the family lived on the 11th

floor of a prefab high rise in the east berlin they had plans for the evening. as . it was my birthday so we could send the children to the grandparents so that my husband and i could spend the evening together. and i know mine would stop. we went to a restaurant called still pool with reservations we made 6 months earlier. we had a nice meal in the holes and drove home planning to spend the rest of the evening together celebrating my wife's birthday why it would stop all begin with on. the t.v. was on and then came schabowski press conference as a. police district offices in east germany were instructed to issue travel pieces without delay. current and frank who had been planning on leaving 2 days later read a goodbye party with the neighbors and the t.v.

was on. this far as i know it takes effect immediately and. i trust i didn't really understand what was happening. in west berlin but yes go and build his friend was also watching the news on t.v. . according to the east german politburo like a show gunter schabowski with east germans will be permitted to leave the country. mature a shocking and of course i immediately thought can this be true. what's going to happen. and then a few minutes later the phone rang and it was frank calling me. i said to him let's did you hear that he said yes let's go and meet at almost cost under the new font i'm on. my husband said look what if the boat is about to open i'm coming to get you and we'll go get out things together and i'll get you home distressed i'll

be back in a moment you don't mind my foot on my tennis shoes and rant about how much toss $700.00 metres. it's been you know it was the one i got in my car and i. you know that they're driving a bit faster than allow probably on my way to bornholm a bridge. between that announcement on television and we wanted to see if we could actually do it i don't think this one is an effective means of something. at 9 that evening the checkpoint behind bornholmer bridge was closed as always. in west berlin a protest march was drawing to a close on the car 1st of all of our. demonstrators did not want the official shop closing times to be extended. in east berlin the 1st handful of people were beginning to head to the border one was our own right arm ski a photographer who had been secretly documenting events. behind

me that i have to film set he recalled the events of that evening. if you comes on and we arrived at porno mistrusts around 9 in the evening when we were standing behind a mesh door to see if there were 1015 maybe 20 people we were practically the 1st to arrive and it was a pretty tense situation but no guns understand as it would soon be that you can see the border guards were aggressive they realized something was going to happen from the am still so quickly realized that something unusual was about to happen. behind on they kept shouting and asking whether it was true that we'd be able to travel over to west berlin that night without these german id cards after all that's what should be asking it said on t.v. the conditional that's how we understood it in any case. your. protest at the checkpoint was gathering force. that was.

5 years later. one thought and i was around had gathered. and i pushed my way through the gate on how much to go on the boat and everyone was there and guns you were going in for they were fired after and they wanted to cross the border people would fence and force you and the front philco was right at the front and was captured on film by a television crew it was. already you were it was a moment that was also captured in the movie it was fun to see you know i was very excited and thought this can't be happening if we were all standing there and the border police didn't know what to do and all. we saw that they were on the phone talking. because into you then a police car arrived in new york and communism for it so you are going to. get there for the democrats for the sake of public order and safety. we ask you to

leave the area in front of the checkpoint and to apply at the proper registration office. we cannot authorize tropico minutes here at this moment. most of us on this is complete nonsense i could have stayed at home this is utter bull loney they don't know what they're doing the kind of awesome didn't see the irony. meanwhile the t.v. report had brought haifa and hans european leg lawyers birthday celebration to an abrupt close. to modest detention is still gives me goose bumps at that moment we just said nothing. will be abided. because after what i got to have you think i'm for that and we went to the hallway and put on our coats and what's happened in the. woods and we got in the car and sped towards bornholmer

bridge which was the closest border crossing and 2 of them i climbed up onto a trash can and took a few pictures and before it was quite something. no police bond. on 0 and still has those photos. in the movie the recreation shows the crowd was still calling for the checkpoint to be open. he's asked what he i still remember the chanting from mindful and looking back but i'm impressed by how peaceful it was that there was no violence he went on if no one threw a bottle or stoned which could easily have happened it was completely peaceful foolish. foolish weekly the film also recalls those moments. as and then when the one of them for the me a little more and more people kept going up and saying look here's my id i want to come across now after

a while and officer came out and said anyone who wants to cross the street to do so i was standing at the gate and i said well then open the gate and then it actually opened and i just stood there some i was right at the front so what could i do but . if i guess i'm going to give even if most of the prison over. there am going to later witness the events while standing on top of the trash can. and zani and i saw one person pass the border checkpoint with a. gun was it felt like it was just a few seconds later the food just a few seconds and one more person walked through wish and then another and another . and gave them our id cards. and they stomped them. and they told us to continue that. house. but he says the view i was a bit with legs about the stem if you would not because they didn't put it on the regular spot but if you most of us i think stunted by 2 not photos of kids and

later i found out that meant we had a german citizenship revoked let. me get later emerged at the border official allowed a few people to pass hoping to defuse the situation. but more and more people began to managing to cross at 11 30 pm the border official opened the gate in order to try to hand the standoff peacefully ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah here you go the officer came in had the barrier opened. and suddenly we could just pass through and i was at the front right by the barrier and just sprinted across the bridge with you. on the western side of the bridge where frank's friend looks was waiting the crowd also began to move forward. because i started running to the

bridge and frank was running towards me and we met somewhere in the last 3rd i think it was we. got that was it i held up my identity card and it was caught on video come on i had been waiting 3 and a half years. that was how long from filk i had waited for permission to live in freedom from one moment to the next it had become reality for all east germans. i said to let's i'm going to fetch my wife and our son your highness and i'll be right back into the community but if you don't. well from phil k. headed back to his family the leg lawyers and their friends ended up in front of the t.v. crew. on impulse suddenly there was a bright light and a microphone appeared and we were asked a question. my friend was so overcome with emotion that he couldn't even get

a word out. of all this. when we saw on t.v. that we could cross without a permit we got up from our birthday party and hopped in the car with the both of us wonder what are going to do we want to look around set foot in west berlin. going to go back a little yes we'll go back. but not everyone was in a party mood that evening including contra who worked as a lab technician. and if it's not identified pretty strongly with east germany it was my home no question kind of help me and i felt a strong commitment to it i had everything i needed really just a few. seconds left on bornholmer strasse and followed the line of cars to the checkpoint. on the western side of

a student from west berlin arrived at the bridge at a party and friends brought him along. hunch martin fleischer climbed onto a pillar of the bridge and watched what was happening. done doing this and that's when masses of people started streaming over it was an incredible atmosphere up by then at the very latest as it had become clear that this was just an unbelievable historic moment and inductors i saw it was coming. then he decided to walk over into east berlin for the very 1st time for him it was a world that every bit as strange as the west seemed to contradict. his mother who's gone i just stood there and watched then i wouldn't have had the courage to cross if someone hadn't spoken to me. not about it at the start he suddenly appeared and sat down next to me announced well where you're from offical. i said

well here from the east. and he said i'm from the west. comes once we started talking and i asked her if she'd ever been to the west were. you sad i said i'm a bit afraid i don't really understand what's going on here pussy it was. it was a chance meeting made possible by the events of just a few hours. i said look everyone's walking back and forth camille i'm from the west you know and i don't even have an idea and maybe he got a kind of i didn't have any connection to west germany i think he does have some i was thinking i'd prefer to stay here in my warm cozy nest arms but hans martin was relaxed it was no big deal he had nothing to be afraid of. and he sort of

pulled me along with him or not mr mix good. bye then frank ok had returned to the empty apartment he and his family were due to leave east germany officially in a couple of days but he did not want to wait the situation seemed too unsettled. plus it was about midnight when funk returned and he had managed to hire a taxi driver about offering him our last $100.00 east german mark bell. you know mark pushed open door and. i grabbed my wife my son and our suitcases and we got in the taxi and drove the few 100 metres to the border and wouldn't know if i might add to the offices in uniform looked at us probably wondering what we were up to. i thought they wouldn't let us pass. this far we were the only ones with a suitcase and a child. and then one of the border guards i guess i've given him

a questioning look on said to me that direction go that way oh. my god incredible i can't believe it. well after midnight let's just go welcome karen and you're hot as fuck. and i put them in the car with their suitcases to food look said come on let's drive along the could but it was surf packed that we were hardly moving. and finally the basically stuck in traffic. and you know there were lots and lots of cars people were getting out laughing cheering we could. get around 1 in the morning at her 1st and dom in west berlin turned into a giant euphoric party location vying for it was amazing and a feeling of total joy from. country and from east berlin and hans martin from the

west had also crossed the border. birth that no longer existed. there was no desire to think until it's implied it was really funny everywhere we went people asked us where are you from the east to the west and the he was just this wonderful at has been tarnished and adventure. so didn't type of a minute as we went on a sightseeing tour of west berlin. and i had my car i think we went to the brandenburg gate 1st one we're told. was there thousands of people were dancing on top of the wall. the van up on the next and we drove around and just bask in it all soaked it all up for. us to say it was really a magical moment as momentous. the legless had their final toast to hike his birthday on the car 1st and. it was the top fall of the cold that's what

happened with our plan to celebrate her birthday with just the 2 of us never materialized i think we got home and to bed sometime around 4 in the morning. but the next day at 10 minutes to 7 we were back at work for months and all the. country and hans martin were out past dawn soaking up the moment. we have been sent to shoplift we exchanged addresses and phone numbers and made plans to meet up one monday and then we just figured well let's see what the future brings. contre manhunts martin fell in love and stayed together for 5 years she showed him eastern germany and he helped her find her footing and what for her was a new world. for hiking and cons you're going to take lower house for all these german citizens the next years brought many chala. but they too found

their footing. and they still take pride in that today. was monday i think we have to keep talking about it and remembering how peaceful it was and no one lost their livelihoods to remove complicit and that's the most important message we need to remember about the fall of the wall in 1909 was so the . it's i think both sides had a hard time imagining it could have turned into a bloodbath what you know we were incredibly lucky that no one accidentally fired a shot before it's a stroke of good fortune for german history that that didn't happen. there which in the us doesn't this is. the wall dividing east and west berlin which would seem so permanent so impregnable was toppled overnight. for decades because if we

couldn't really believe it it was unthinkable it wasn't a realistic idea that the border could just fall from one day to the next. but we would be don't move me to remember that we were a small part of that history into these are. just yvonne just made up by the skin i believe it we saw it happen live it changed our lives in so many ways that's something i'll never forget but at the pump line. the 2 families they yes because in the village has remained friends through the turbulent years following german reunification. sometimes they go back to bornholmer bridge to remember how they gathered there with thousands of others on nov 9th 1989. today the bridge that once separated east and west berlin is just a normal sight he like. in

a unified germany.

years after the fall of the berlin wall. t.w. kickoff life. here's a. guy joining a difficult times for east german soccer team today none of the team is from the former east german top division played in the bundesliga why is that we ask a player from the east in the west bank.

30 minutes on d w. today i write a long before my border between east and west berlin. i would like to see what remains of the history of the division of europe germany temporarily and. searching for traces of the berlin wall. 90 minutes on d w. syrian born on man visits a local bar in berlin. he lives just opposite with a man from who was a member of the hitler youth as

a child. some residents are suspicious of refugees in the neighborhood. and there is curious about the bar's regulars to cross the road worlds apart. starting november 11th on d.w. . which is roma can stop book now travel now a mainstream type. this

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