Witnesses to the Berlin Wall
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Did You Feel Something Imminent, or Was It Going to Happen?
i think he cried when they didn't open fire on that big march in leipzig. I think that was the turning point where they could have done and clearly they were ready to do so, but they didn't. And then we went through, you know, tha, the regime started to collapse. Er, it was day to day trying to cope, er, letting people. People started leaving vi hungary, first of all. Then by the wost german embassy in prague, people were leaving the country for the first time. And and it was unravelling. So i don't think anybody envisaged that the wall would open very quickly or that the country would
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