On November 9, 1989, history changed under the dumbfounded gaze of millions of viewers.
Whereas, since the end of the Second World War, Germany found itself cut in two, torn between the USSR, to the East, and the United States, to the West, the hitherto hermetic border between these two worlds suddenly seem to disappear.
During a press conference broadcast live on prime time TV, a leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) announces a relaxation of the rules for the movement of citizens of East Germany.
A measure which, he mumbles, takes effect “immediately, as far as I know”.
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