once this is the last 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 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 their guests on the film said. this was sponsored it's amazing to watch 25 years later. i am i was i feel.

like an huns here conflict or 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 forever. this is 1st it's a very emotional moment for me watching this right now even though of course it's just a movie. caught 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. most inclusive with people start to choose it makes me start to choke up i feel like i want to join in but it's just. an amazing moment it's like a journey back in time to this and. credible moment in history absolutely. for

a country on a hunch marking that chance meeting on the bridge sent their lives in a different direction. looks yes good lived in west berlin built 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 unyielding. 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 to fill his belongings after 3 years of waiting

their application to leave east germany for the west had been approved. they were due to leave on nov 13th 1989. 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 plans for them to need the movers came early in the morning of november 9th to our farm and to take them to look at his apartment with some bits if it. looks yes good lift on kaiser doc in west berlin. he's often at my father and 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 with full of moving boxes for the belonging to the family. and a feel good 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 berlin.

for their son johan in the upcoming force excited but also a bit scary. don wouldn't know i'm up she replied and a good guy pause he with taken some sweets at his day. 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 help of family live in communist east germany meant that they would leave everything behind their families their friends and their old way of life. you know. the small. oh he thought it wasn't easy he had many high months thinking we'd never be able to go home when we grown up and

visit every one on one with denise but you didn't know what the regime would do. we had that people who left we never allowed back to visit us who were closing doors. 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 strasse a. no. no. for i k. and hans you're going legler the visit to the film set up the us like a journey into the southeast is going to get because of a mini me and a couple were engineers at a state owned signalling technology company. november 9th 1809 was a thursday

a work day like any other for the young couple. are raising our children almost gemini 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 life. we lived an ordinary life and we didn't call attention to ourselves i'm going to. the family lived on the 11th floor of a prefab high rise in east berlin they had plans for the evening. as they had it was my birthday so we'd send the children to grandparents so that my husband and i could spend the evening together. and i know my. son arms we went to a restaurant called still pool with reservations we made 6 months earlier on as may be 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 bored stop manifold begin with on the bike the t.v. was on and then came schabowski press conference as a conference with him before to protect the police district offices and east germany are 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 the monitor so far as i know it takes effect immediately and. at 1st i didn't really understand what was happening. in west berlin but yes go built this friend was also watching the news on t.v. . according to the east german politburo locational gunter schabowski east germans will be perm. had to leave the country name and maturely shut mind of course i immediately thought can this be true. what's going

to happen of course that and then a few minutes later the phone rang and it was frank calling me a nun in the teams i said to him looks did you hear that he said yes let's go and meet on 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 on a stressed i'll be back in a moment if my life put on my tennis shoes and ran to born almost 700 metres positive on. it's been you know it was there when i got in my car and i headed over there driving a bit faster than allow to 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. this means an effective means of some kind. 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 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. last week that i have to show him so he recalled the events of that evening. he comes home and we arrived at borno mistrusts around 9 in the evening we were standing behind him. for about 1015 maybe 20 people we were practically the 1st to arrive and it was a pretty tense situation. and the sponsors. and so it is and you can see the border guards were aggressive they realized something was going to happen was on speed so

quickly realized that something unusual was about to happen was he kept shouting and asking whether it was true that we'd be able to travel over to west berlin that night with these german id cards but after all that's what should be asking it said on t.v. that's how we understood it in any case. you would. protest at the checkpoint was gathering force. was. right and your god you have to have i don't want in any other crowd had gathered and i pushed my way through the gate had gone how much tossed 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 people would fence and force you and god from philco was right at the front and was captured on film by a television crew am i you you have you was

a moment that was also captured in the movie was fun to see you know i was very excited and thought this can't be happening just on we were all standing there and the border police didn't know what to do. we saw that they were on the phone talking. because in the scene then a police car arrived in new york and communism puts a barn. and everything down there for the sake of public order in 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. one. of the most if i was on 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 hikari and hans you're going late bloomers birthday celebration to an abrupt close. not modest to hit it still gives me goosebumps that moment we just said nothing. will be abided. because after all we've got to have you know that as 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 gun 2 of them i climbed up onto a trash can and took a few pictures and before it was quite something. no police bond. honduran still has those photos. in the movie the recreate shows the crowd was still calling for the checkpoint to be open. users but he did i still remember the chanting from mind and looking back but i'm

impressed by how peaceful it was and there was no violence he went no one threw a bottle or stoned which could easily have happened and it was completely peaceful foolish. foolish weekly the film also recalls those moments was his and then when the one of them for the 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 give you a pity if i guess i'm going to give even if most of them pretty. her hunch you're going to later witness the events while standing on top of the trash can. and zoe and i saw one person pass the border checkpoint with his gun was it felt like it

was just a few seconds later the few posies just a few seconds and one more person walked through wish and then another. and gave them our id cards. and they stomped them and they told us to continue that . this house is the one that he says will be if i was a baby but the legs about the stem it wouldn't because they didn't put it on the regular spot it always was and they stunted by time not photo let's look at that and later i found out that meant we'd had a german citizenship revoked i think. it later emerged at the border official allowed a few people to pass hoping to defuse the situation. look 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 ah ah ah ah ah. hey you got the officer came in had the barrier opened. and suddenly we could just pass through 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. 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. were and 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 can i have waited for permission to live in freedom from one moment to the next it had become reality for all east germans.

shops and it's bizarre i said to look it's not i'm going to fetch my wife and our son your highness and i'll be right back 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 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 he couldn't even get a word out. of all this to blaine. 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 he got to do we want to look around set foot in west berlin. going to go back all you want yes we'll go back. but not everyone was in a party mood that evening including contra concept 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 missed a few. seconds left on bornholmer strasse and followed a line of cars to the checkpoint. on the western side of a student from west berlin arrived at the bridge and at a party and friends brought him along. hunch martin fleischer climbed onto a pillar of the bridge and watched what was happening. to him doing 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 and. 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 contra. i just stood there and watched the news dummy i wouldn't have had the courage to cross if someone hadn't spoken to me. yet 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 would you. use 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 of just a few hours. i

said look everyone is walking back and forth camille i'm from the west you know and i don't even have an idea on me he had 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. concert and he sort of pulled me along with him or not mr mix could see. 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 to unsettle. it was about midnight when funk returned and he had managed to hire a taxi driver about offering him last 100 east german mark bell. you know mark

pushed the horn 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. wouldn't understand know if i'm out of the office is in uniform looked at us probably wondering what we were up to cook. i thought they wouldn't let us pass. this bar we were the only ones with a suitcase and a child. and then one of the border guards i guess i'd 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 you just can't 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.

on and we were basically stuck in traffic. and there 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. country and from east berlin and hans martin from the west had also crossed. border that no longer existed. the last one in science incidentally it's implied it was really funny everywhere we went people asked us where are you from the east of the west and he was just this wonderful at has been tarnished and adventure. so didn't type of a minute as my we went on a sightseeing tour of west berlin. and i had my car i think we went to the

brandenburg gate 1st one of the 12. was there thousands of people were dancing on top of the wall. with one of the mics and we drove around it just baskin it all soaked it all up for. us to say it was really a magical moment as momentous. the lakers have their final toast to hike his birthday on the car 1st and. it was the top for all of us at 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 of them. got trim and hans martin were out past dawn soaking up the moment. he had known some to shop with we exchanged addresses and phone numbers and made

plans to meet up with. then we just figured well let's see what the future brings. turn on hunch 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 hans you're going to take lower house for all these german citizens the next years brought many to. challenges 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 no one lost their livelihoods don't even come close to me that's the most important message we need to remember about the fall of the wall in 1909 so the to . get over this it's i think both sides have

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 have them. there which he does business with. the wall dividing east and west berlin which it seems so permanent so impregnable was toppled overnight. for your use case 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 were in my view it moved me to remember that we were a small part of that history. these are. just made up by the spill i believe it we saw it happen live it changed our lives in so many ways that's something i'll never forget the sweat but the pipeline.

the 2 families the yes because 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 november 9th 1089. today the bridge that once separated east and west berlin is just a normal city. like in a unified germany. and

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