2009-11-09 | EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS
The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago changed the course of EU history. But many people in Europe are still waiting for the political and economic freedoms promised by the event.
Lela-Rose Engler was on 9 November 1989 a 26-year-old student of East German origin resident in West Berlin. Having heard radio reports of massing crowds on the eastern side of the barrier, she took the underground to the Heinrich Heine Strasse crossing point at around 11pm local time to see what was going on.
Confused border guards had begun letting trickles of people through from east to west at various points from 9pm onward. The mass breaches started from 11.30pm, with tens of thousands gathered on the western side to greet fellow Berliners after 28 years of separation.
"That night there was pure joy, no thoughts about problems ...just a feeling of getting back a missing part of your body, your missing other half", Ms Engler told EUobserver. MORE
by Andrew Rettman
http://euobserver.com/9/28957/?rk=1
Please also see:
Germany celebrates memory of Berlin Wall falling
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091108/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_after_the_wall
Berlin Wall (photo source)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
Retracing the Berlin Wall
http://www.die-berliner-mauer.de/en/index.html
The Berlin Wall
http://www.berlin-life.com/berlin/wall
Berlin Wall Online
http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall
The Berlin Wall
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html
the Berlin WALL
http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/
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