people were thinking about the people were thinking about freedom and traveling and 57 of the 60 minutes the press a press conference take place he talks about reforming socialism and then you missed the main part a nightmare for record yeah complete nightmare and historic fail for me because i 5 minutes before the press conference and i have to go upstairs where ring radio studio was to make a life broadcast to my radio station in western berlin so i prepared a little bit 5 minutes and this is where the 5 minutes i missed the historical sentence of mr schabowski so you could have been the 1st person to tell the world that the wall is open but you couldn't after you realized what did you do then yeah i went in to several boss and principal back in some berlin and spoke with the people there they didn't know anything and i brought the news to them and this was

a very intense speaking and interns evening and then we went together to the border to the checkpoints where the pressure on the border was drawing growing in every minute nothing was happening at that very moment thank you very much for sharing your memories of a very sad reporter on the back to the studio i guess hard fact so much i guess. it's the sight of the former politburo there in east l.a. and you're watching the w. special coverage of celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall we've been looking at commemorative events taking place across the city today now here's a look back about historic night 30 years ago. the world must die but it seemed unimaginable became true on november 9th 1989.

after 28 years a chink in the wall and suddenly immeasurable freedom. when i'm with my mother and my father over there can i go over there and see my parents yes. good luck with. that dust no one dreamed that this was possible in their life a tough guy image abroad the sushi it is too good to be true millions of people have been waiting for this moment. so you've never been to the west no never what sort of feeling is that brilliant indescribable the atmosphere in the joy you can't believe it my it's crazy. laws an. 11 30 pm at berlin's bornholmer strasse a transit point the borders 1st began to open here freedom had finally won. now

it's off to west berlin. destination the glittering came down from a not. just and we just walked right through without being stopped it was fantastic. i just went over with my id was led in this went over there i asked if it was free yes they asked what we're planning to pay with money and what did you do here in west berlin no effort just went over there and stood there had my feet on the ground that was it 1st just went over there to see if it's true because now i can go back and forth at any time it's fantastic leaders were surprised and overwhelmed form an incumbent man as a prime timber gate. they spoke of the happiest people on earth of the united europe a vision and ideas. leave the pay

somewhere for the museum. but the people must be able to meet each other again freely not just for a few days but anyways. one year later east and west germany were united but bitter memories of decades of separation and a system of oppression remained. so it was all going off 30 years ago and the double political correspondent peter craven was here and while he was in west berlin 30 years ago witnessing history where were you that night i wasn't in west berlin i was in east berlin looking at it when it came to the crunch. oh i was with a group of people who i had sort of joined up with coming from the each therein lies a story that would have enough time for that and we were heading for the berlin wall to try to become among the 1st people to actually get up on the berlin wall at the brandenburg gate from the eastern side and one of the guys in this group that i'd

sort of found myself among said charge and so we all started running towards the wall and there were border police with kalashnikovs in front of her on the breast as it were and we drew we challenged through their ranks and then climbed up onto the wall so you think this is indication of how dangerous it could get in there i mean how you already heard then that it's very it was open. in my instance with a couple of friends i come from the west where i write you so rightly said that that was where i was based at the time i'd come through the invalid insurance or the border crossing into the eastern enjoined up on the other side with these people from these they were charging then back to the west so this is this big mobs on the streets knowing that something was was was happening so you know you mentioned the border guards with their kalashnikov so not scared at all you'd have been well in your early twenty's and you know i was in my i was in my thirty's and i was with the woman who was to become my wife and we were we were there was that

moment when the guy said charge and we started running towards the wall i can remember turning and looking to my partner and thinking this is the right thing to be doing but it could come up one heck of a price i mean there was a real sense of of this is on and i think it's because there had been demonstrations calling for reform and what we get you get the impression that the actual announcement took everyone by surprise it did and that was what was so amazing i mean but i had contacts in east berlin i had contacts in east germany and i knew people in west berlin who were really in the know and you would have these endless conversation who are saying the wall is going to come down isn't it yes we'd say and then the next question would always be well is it going to happen in my lifetime and you'd say well maybe but probably not probably erich honecker win this argument and it'll be there in 50 years time or 200 years time is that that's what he said the communist leader and life in the years so you were moving between the east and west how did life in east and west berlin differ before the war came

down to for the for the for i think the similarities were actually quite interesting that each country each city in east berlin and west berlin was a was a shot from for its system its ideology there was capitalism in the west berlin being shown off in the in the windows of the big boutiques in west berlin in east germany that was the show of city for. instrument communism truth be told both cities were really rather dingy bit in a fascinating kind of way i mean what it helped helped everybody to make some good music and that's a good thing but today the united berlin is a better place to stay with us peter because once the wall opened then as wasted no time in tearing it down but it left a scar that took decades to heal in our next report we're going to meet an east berlin photographer who risked documenting the war from his side of the city. the center of the island skyscrapers and tourists filled the streets but this was the

death strip until 1909 it was part of the heavily guarded wall complex which separated west and east 150 kilometers long and in places up to 150 meters wide as oh no berlin or was allowed to enter get down if you grew up in east berlin the wall stood right next to his home this is where he started taking photos . when i was relatively operative i took my zoom lens and photographed it from far away. because it was strictly forbidden to take pictures of the border area that's going to resolve all of. his pictures show balloons radical transformation this wasteland has become germany's government quarter the city may change but some things stay the same people need to love and to eat.

i used to love to come here with my camera because there was lots of life here lots of images to be captured and one thing that hasn't changed is qana because it's still here today. famous for its color you boast cannot get has been selling sausages for 90 years now and still serves the same menu the kleins today and different though. we have this used to be a working class neighborhood there were factories everywhere everyone dropped in here after their shift or on their way to work. book gate for most east berlin as this was the end of the world today the city has been reunited but forget donegal somethin still remains. a mere thought if i still have the wall in my head. and when i travel across a public transportation in my mind i'm traveling from east to west or from west to

east that's just stayed in my head than a. fairly and that's why i'm envious of the young people who do not have the same side on them. for those who born after the war what remains is just part of history. so let's bring it up to date with political correspondent of peter craven who's still with us a picture peter let's talk about berlin today in fact little by germany today how are the former east and west now getting along well if you begin here in berlin people get on pretty well i would say it's it's viewed as entirely as you were as you well know it's in theaters entirely uncle to talk about east and west really but berlin has become sort of an international zone if you so well it's quite a sort of a good news story around german reunification there are other good news stories i mean a city that comes to mind is leipsic for example where things it's a very very buoyant forward looking city but still there's massive resentment among

people in eastern germany does this figure of 57 people percent of east germans saying recently that they view themselves as 2nd class citizens why so there are so many good reasons i found a very interesting example the other day that might explain this for our viewers. of all the. colleges universities and centers of higher education in eastern germany of which there are dozens maybe i think 80 plus how many have got directors who are from the east we're talking about is german colleges of higher education the answer is 00000. that cannot be right so you are still active to discover action against each germans in a glass ceiling and then for the you know there are lots of very ambitious young each are former east germans people from lisa in germany who have got great skills and have you know made great strides in recent years but nobody from eastern germany or very very few people that's too categorical to say nobody knew very very

few people are getting to the top either in new west germany or in these germany i suppose with the example is always going to be the chancellor who i suppose people are going to look at her and say well what what she's been in power for for all the years so a decade and a half has what what has what have her the government's done about addressing those divisions between east and west 20 extremely large amounts of money and i mean the metaphor that's often used is that they've spent it on the facades and the really it or at least a very interesting aspect of the story is not what it is you know the pretty facades of eastern germantown cities and villages but what is going on behind the facades and as i say there is still an awful lot of resentment when you took sid simply to look just people have been left behind successful eastern germans they've seen the pain for example of their parents or grandparents in the 1990 s. when 75 percent of people lost their jobs they find it unbearable they're angry. a

good thing is that i think quite a lot of western germans and western german politicians are coming around to the error of their ways and are realizing that we perhaps focused not perhaps we did we focus too much on the markets and too little on the people so that the country is united but still work to be done peter craven political correspondent thank you so much for that. this is day doubly news law from berlin up next the knights of the form of the wall at the dublin documentary that if you get you get all the latest news information around the clock on our website that's t w dot com i'll leave you now with some more off the burden staatskapelle are conducted by daniel barenboim i'm going to. her.

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the teams from the former east german division play in the bundesliga why is that we ask a player from the east in the west. next d w. how do you. have a sustainable way to scuttle. as for starts nov 14th on t.w. . without

this peaceful revolution matchday tens 1st step up and is legal between an east and west berlin club would never have been possible.