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 o

on now let's bring in peter craven who's with me here in the studio peter hello to you there's been a lot of speeches today from different political leaders we heard from uncle americal earlier we heard from the german president or what was the central message from political leaders today i think the central message is very much that this was a peaceful revolution that there was no bloodshed and that has been echoed by all the political leaders and people here in germany are indeed rightfully proud of this fact it could of course have been so very different tournaments square in china just a few couple of months earlier and there was at least one prominent east german communist leader who actually applauded what took place there the robust approach of the chinese authorities so that kind of thing was avoided here in germany and that's important because obviously germany had. got a very difficult history with the nazi period and then the east german communist period so a bloodless revolution revolution is something indeed to be proud of and it is a model for many people coming to berke

so let's bring it up to date and with correspondent peter craven who's still with us supreme 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 got on pretty well i would say it's it's viewed as entirely as you were as you will know it in future is entirely uncle to talk about east and west really 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

quite a chilling story peter craven thank you. this is that d.w. news up next a check and a travel guide to where belden wall special are of course that there is more on this and the day's other events going on in the world on our website by state w dot com so i will leave you now with music from tonight so celebrations at the brandenburg gate have a good day. the air. a little. place. 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall. t.w. . today i write a long before my border between east and west berlin. i would like to see what remains of the history of the division of europe germany and fairly. searching for traces of the berlin. d w. t o france dear antonio here's a scene when your mother was born in 1969 the world was already 8 years old you know my grandchildren were born after the wall fell born in a free. 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history and. all our family and costs. going to. discover. discovery with the. school. after 100 lives the ideals of the bombs are more relevant today than they were. under the gener

well in amongst those crowds was the political correspondent of peter craven who was living in west berlin at the time and witness history being made welcome do you support yourself there nobody was looking about. taking us back then 30 years because there had been demonstrations calling for reform but the wall coming down to everyone by surprise like at alexanderplatz on the 4th of november that was a huge demonstration and i think people did begin to recover begin to realize that the game was almost up for the communist regime in east germany just a couple of days later i was actually in the bath on the afternoon of the 9th of november not thinking that it could catch possibly happen on that day or any day close and the people i was living with came home and said out of the bath the wall is coming down so i know i've never read myself down so quickly and found myself in believing strasser one of the crossing points where the wall actually opens up into east berlin and where i was right at the front with a group of friends of mine journalists and there were some people in front of us they

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