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The Berlin Wall: Countdown to 1961/1989
Season 1 · Episode 2
Countdown to 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
0.045mJanuary 1, 2019
The fall of the Berlin Wall on the evening of Nov. 9, 1989, came as a complete surprise to East and West Germans, and the entire world. How did this historic moment come to be? Interviews describe the events surrounding the fall of the wall, and photographer Dietmar Riemann shares how he decided to leave East Germany in the hope of a better life in the West.