for the 1st time in decades to bridge at bonheur mushed aso was open again. tens of thousands of people flooded into west doesn't match night. but. the times they had blackfish returned to the bridge but no one asked them for their passports to realize the wall had come down for good to. be an insult even though he kept we've never had to fight like that in our lives we were used to accuse but we were the only ones going into east berlin. we were in the middle where the hearts were and on one side were cars on the other people some with buggies it felt like the whole of east germany was moving because everyone was scared the borders would close again they were carrying so much. longer obviously with my then i met with my deputy who kept telling me i had to do something because i was the boss no he said harold it's finished. i didn't know right away what he meant i said what is it and he said with an east germany it's finished were printed both were. established 4 o'clock in the morning and that was the moment when the news of boggle on good to schabowski snow

with the man in charge of the border crossing at bonheur must pass or have made an engine phone call to his superior what had shut off skip been talking about is there not always a lot of the real he said to me you're calling me because of that rubbish i said yes that's exactly why i am calling he said you know the orders east german citizens are only allowed to leave under the current conditions meaning they need a passport and a proper visa otherwise they have to be turned back. 5 intellectually. the east german leadership heard nothing about any of this because the put it pure and the ministers and all the top party officials posted at the central committee meeting none of them had seen schabowski press conference. at the same time in warsaw how much cold was also in the dark about the events in east berlin the west german chancellor was the guest as a banquet. the room was a box and then sure boss he pulled up the paper put it back as walking and left the stage i want out ran upstairs with my camera crew and were a small room with a sharansky who was completely calm and collected

then the safety valve solution was applied at bonheur mushed casa this does he wanted to use the trick to relieve pressure on the border and also to get rid of possible dissidents. that fish fell into the trap . it's already noticed it isn't great to us all the people standing there we went all the way to the front to the heart of the window open and someone said what do you want those events i asked whether he knew that the border was open now i was faced with that we said we wanted to cross. the line or asked from passports in a really brusque way but instead of her presence in our lives we. got our stamps we took our passports and off we went you know but the laws. what they didn't know was that the stamp meant they were ex-pats change it. as i was so excited my legs were shaking i was scared because i didn't know what would happen and he was the. thought that all this is that it was this really a good thing we did in order and he walked across very slowly and did it as when i was have with me. but i didn't severely it's quite a way from the border to the bridge we were completely o

is a desert i started increasing numbers of people were making their way to the border crossing at bonheur mushed us and they were convinced they were now allowed to travel. but border security hadn't received any new instructions the officer tried to tell the crowd he couldn't let them through. but the people could no longer be turned back so easily. a month i'll comment on the moment that more and more people were arriving they came on foot in cars and by tram they weren't aggressive at this point but they were very firm in their demands on not. jani. and. how they made another worried phone call to his superior cannot see good hon asking for instructions a lot of the mere verbal through my superior told me on the phone that he'd call the ministry he'd get hold of either the minister or is deputy he said i could listen to the conversation. as it were to me out of use not tired he wanted to show me that at this point there would be no hope or no rescue from above or the kind that i told there will be. no one in the ministry wanted to believe what he was telling them. to look at the questi