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 shit 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 catron and hans martin that chance meeting on the bridge sent their lives in a different direction. looks yes going to 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 he'll be. a moving van was underway in the east berlin district of france 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 november 13th 1809. i knew we don't really put out a few boxes of th

martin fleischer climbed onto a pillar of the bridge and watched what was happening. done things that's when masses of people started streaming over it was an incredible atmosphere felt that by then at the very latest as it had become clear that this was just an unbelievable historic moment and inductors i saw was one of. them 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. was monday tuesday and i just stood there and watched the next i mean i wouldn't have the courage to cross if someone hadn't spoken to me. you know i devoted at the start he suddenly appeared and sat down next to me announced 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. he said 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 fort

let's cross to berlin now and talk now to hans martin fleischer, who owns four original pieces of thejoining us. tell me why you have gone to so much trouble to collect pieces of the wall? this isa to collect pieces of the wall? this is a long story. hello to great britain. coincidentally, iwas talking to east german officials about buying a piece of the berlin wall forjapanese about buying a piece of the berlin wall for japanese news film. about buying a piece of the berlin wall forjapanese news film. when i checked the catalogue, i found that the first pieces of the wall were still in their possession. and i started thinking it would be a good idea to preserve them. but at first was a business idea, but later it became clear to me that so much meaning for pieces of the birling wall —— berlin wall, most important in german history, so in a short sentence, it is the beginning and the end of european division. he did try to sell them originally. what was the response? did not turn out that well in the beginning. in the first month, there were some people interested , first month, there