our youth as a child. some residents are suspicious of refugees in the neighborhood. americans curious about the bar's regulars to cross the road worlds apart. starting november 11th on d w. once this is. it was the night when the seemingly inconceivable became reality the fall of the berlin wall 25 years later these events were recreated on a film set of bornholmer strasse and including the emotions that overcame many east german citizens as they mastered the wall that night their anger hope and determination. and hans you're going

lechler were also at the wall on the night of november 9th 1989 today there are guests on a film set. this was sponsored it's amazing to watch 25 years later. i am i was glad. i can enhance here can legler live to what was then communist east berlin for them a film set is like a journey back in time to the moment in which their lives and the country they lived in changed forever. this most it's a very emotional moment for me watching this right now even though of course it's just a movie. culture and cut 2nd hons 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. listen closely with the people started shit makes me start to choke up i feel like i want to join in but it was. an amazing moment it's like a journey back in time to this and. credible moment in history absolutely. for catron and hans martin that chance meeting on the bridge sent their lives in a different direction. yes going lived in west berlin filk a 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 i'm yielding. a

moving van was underway in the east berlin district of prince lower back. it was headed to the village as apartment. the movers were there to pick up the bill because belongings after 3 years of waiting their application to leave east germany for the west had been approved. they were due to leave on november 13th 1989. and if you we don't really put out a few boxes of the things we were going to be allowed to take with us and transport them to need the movers came in early in the morning of november 9th to our apartment to take them to look at his apartment in some goods he would and if it.

looks yes good lived on kaiser doc in west berlin. he's often. in funk in them and my father was here when the movies came out when i got home from work coming out of pot meant in the company in the back the full of moving boxes for the belonging to do they have a family that. looks good and a feel good family have 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 johan of the upcoming. but i'm also a bit scary. don wouldn't know i'm up she planned a good guy policy with taken some sweets at his day. also we couldn't take all of his toys so exhausted 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 daycare. 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 when we're grown up and visit everyone. when was the news but you didn't know what the regime would do. we had that people who left we never allowed back to visit. but that night everything changed. 25 years later in the dressing room of a film 500 people gathered to recount those events in a made for t.v.

movie called bornholmer strawson. for high care and hans you're going legler a visit to the film set it was like a journey into the southeast is going to get because i. mean something new 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. were raising our children almost germany we had what we had everything we needed if you went. you have to remember that my husband and i we were an ordinary family going about our daily lives. we lived in ordinary times and every didn't call attention to ourselves i'm here to leave. the family lived on the 11th floor of

a prefab high rise in the east berlin they had plans for the evening. as they had to have a good sunday it was my birthday so we'd send the children to the grandparents so that my husband and i could spend the evening together. in the mind of woodstock but. before we went to a restaurant called still pool with reservations we made 6 months earlier on the ship as newbies and 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. that's why it the board stopped manifold begin the funding by the t.v. was on and then came schabowski press conference as. before it's been 6 a police district offices in east germany are instructed to issue travel pieces without delay. current in front built who'd been planning on leaving 2 days later read a goodbye party with the neighbors and the t.v.

was on the man 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 to 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. maturely shukman 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 among the 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 honey stressed i'll be back in

a moment you don't even mind i shot on my tennis shoes and ran to bomb almost 700 metres. it's been you know it was there when i got in my car and i headed over there driving a bit faster than allowed probably on my way to bornholm a bridge. so long that when that announcement on television often said we wanted to see if we could actually do it. with a system that something. that 9 that evening the checkpoint behind bornholmer bridge was closed as all of us. in west berlin a protest march. it 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 but. 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. was

i the film said he recalled the events of that evening. he comes home and we arrived at porno mistrusts around 9 in the evening when we were standing behind a mesh door to see him for about 1015 maybe 20 pay thought we were practically the 1st to arrive and it was a pretty tense situation on the guns underspent as it would so it isn't because of the border guards were aggressive they realized something was going to have some form of amnesty so quickly realized that something unusual was about to happen was going 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 so busking it said on t.v. that's how we understood it in any case. you would. protest at the checkpoint was gathering force. was. that.

i. was. one thought than any i was around had gathered and i pushed my way through to the gate had gone how much to go on the ball and everyone was there and guns you were going in for they were fired after and they wanted to cross the border of people for it $0.90 a force you and the law from philco was right at the front and was captured on film by a television crew. was carried on with them was also captured in the movie. i was very excited and thought this can't be happening we were all standing there and the border police didn't know what to do and you know. we saw that they were on the phone talking. to you then a police car arrived in new york and communism. has never been down there 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 travel permits here at this moment. i must if i want this is complete nonsense i could have stayed at home this is utter bull loney they don't know what they're doing that kind of awesome didn't see the irony. meanwhile the t.v. report had brought high care and i'm sure going legler his birthday celebration to an abrupt close. to modest. still gives me goose bumps at that moment we just said nothing. will be abided by. because after all we've got to have you know i'm scared and we went to the hallway and put on our coats and once he happened to know. we got in the car and sped towards bornholmer bridge which was

the closest border crossing lines above them i climbed up onto a trash can and took a few pictures and before it was quite something. fully funded. hans you're still has those photos. in the movie the recreation shows the crowd was still calling for the checkpoint to be open. users but he could i still remember the chanting well from my mind looking back but i'm impressed by how peaceful it was that there was no violence he meant no one threw a bottle or stone to them which could easily have happened it was completely peaceful felicia. foolish weekly the film also recalls those moments it was as and then when i hung them from the me a little more and more people kept going up and saying look here's my id i want to come across now for

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 all of a pity if i guess i'm going to give even if most of them pretty oh yeah right. you're going to laker witnessed the events while standing on top of the trash can. is on and i saw one person pass the border checkpoint and what was done was it felt like it was just a few seconds later the food just a few seconds and one more person walked through and then another and another. and gave them our id cards. and they stomped them. and they told us to continue that. house is the one that he says i was a paper the next about the stamp but you wouldn't because they didn't put it on the regular spot but it always was and i think stunted by 2 not photos of the kids and

later i found out that meant we had a german citizenship revoked i think. it later emerged that 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 end 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 there 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 we could just sit. on the western side of the bridge where frank's friend looks was waiting the crowd also began to move forward. quickly i started running to the bridge and frank was

running towards me and we met somewhere in the last 3rd i think it was with. wings 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 phil waited for permission to live in freedom from one moment to the next it had become reality for all east germans. and it's because i said to look suits 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 milka headed back to his family the leg lawyers and their friends ended up in front of a 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 both of us wonder what are going to do we want to look around set foot in west berlin. and all 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 unfollowed a line of cars to the checkpoint. on the western side to a student from west berlin arrived at the bridge and at

a party and friends brought him along. martin fleischer climbed onto a pillar of the bridge and watched what was happening. in this that's when masses of people started streaming over it was an incredible atmosphere that by then at the very latest as it had become clear that this was just an unbelievable historic moment an inductance i switched on the. man 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 mug. i just stood there and watched the next on the i wouldn't have the courage to cross if someone hadn't spoken to me. yeah he wanted to at the start he suddenly appeared and sat down next to me and asked well where you're from the 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 would . you say that 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 or 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 on me he got a kind of i didn't have any connection to west germany 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 much to misconstrue. by then frank 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. it was about midnight when frank returned and he had managed to hire a taxi driver about offering him our last $100.00 east german mark bill. 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 meters to the border and wouldn't understand know if i might be offices in uniform looked at us probably wondering what we were up to. i thought they wouldn't let us pass on this 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 what yes go welcome karen and your heart is filthy. and i put them in the car with their suitcases to food and look said come on let's drive along the could but it was surpassed that we were hardly moving. to. find out where the basically stuck in traffic. and they were lots and lots of cars people were getting out laughing cheering with the. head 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. contra and from east berlin and hans martin from the

west had also crossed the. or birth that no longer existed. was decided since it would take some political money it was really funny everywhere we went to people where were you from the east or 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 told me was there thousands of people were dancing on top of the wall. was given up on the ritz and we drove around and just baskin it all soaked all of. us. let's say it was really a magical moment as momentous. the lakers had their final toast to hike his birthday on the car 1st into. the top 5 of the top that's what

happened and our plan to celebrate her birthday with just the 2 of us never materialized 'd 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 a full month. and then hans martin were out past dawn soaking up the moment. he had been sent to shoplift we exchanged addresses and phone numbers and made plans to meet up. then we just figured well let's see what the future brings. contre manhunts martin fell in love and stayed together for 5 years when she showed him eastern germany and he helped her find her footing and what for her was a new world. for hi kate and hans you're going to take lower house for all these german citizens the next years brought many challenges but they too found

their footing. and they still take pride in that today. i think we have to keep talking about it and remembering how peaceful it was and no one lost their livelihoods to remove list and that's the most important message we need to remember about the fall of the wall in 1909 was so the. this it's i think both sides had a hard time imagining it could have turned into a plot by the way incredibly lucky that no one accidentally fired a shot that. it's a stroke of good fortune for german history that that didn't have them. good options. this is. a wall dividing east and west berlin which it seems so permanent so impregnable was toppled over night. for 30 years because if we

couldn't really believe it i mean it was unthinkable that it wasn't a realistic idea just just that the border could just fall from one day to the next . but we would in my view did most major remember that we were a small part of that history the entire these are. just made up by evil on the scale i believe it we saw it happen live it changed our lives in so many ways that's something i'll never forget the office what with the pump line. the 2 families they ask us in the village has remained friends through the turbulent years followed 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 city like in

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