We are ONE People

Twenty years ago (9, 10 and 11 November 1989) The Berlin wall fall down. FREEDOM was back !!!
How do you ALL feel about it

I was at school in a University of Technology in France.
Our German teacher extracted some articles from newspapers and we should react about the events.
How can I imagine that those events were historical events? Nobody knows. For us, pupils, it was a policy change, a revolution from the people. It was also the first time I saw a Traban. Brandenburger Tor. Many life news on TV. Many memories... but not a piece of the wall.

I would like to get some feelings, like gamine, about people who said 'Ich war dabei'.

I feel great!!

It's nice we can hear about it everywhere, at TV, radio, newspapers. As it was something, this F..G wall, an unfair punishment for people who lived in Berlin, many of them were cruelly separated from their family. Of course, those from the eastern part were those who suffered the most. This has been one of the consequences of WW2 towards the German people, as if everyone of them had been nazies. The eastern part of Germany has been suffering the most, but between 1945 and 1961, the whole country has been in a lot of misery. On Arte/zdf one could see a documentary about inhuman conditions of life to which the German population was submitted. Stig Dagerman's "l'automne allemand/ German autumn" shows which miserable conditions the whole German population was reduced to live in after WW2. I say "the whole population" to put the stress on children one could see on all fours searching for food in the mud, in this huge ruins field (Berlin, but also many, many towns in Germany)
Personaly, when I heard the news on 1989, I have been feeling a great emotion, a great joy, as I never thought it would be possible one day.

There are now unfortunately some other walls that are still to fall, as they are causing a great misery elsewhere in our often unfair world to many innocent people...

It might be one of the greatest things that happened during the 20th century Lene.

I once travelled in northern Europe with my family before the wall was pulled down. I was about 5 years old. I can still remember the unpleasant feeling when we went through the customs check between East & West Germany. It was night and there was sooo many searchlights, a barbed wire fence and the light dazzled me when we stepped out of the car. I remember the inspection as RIGOROUS, they even checked under the car with mirrors!!

Hi all. It's nice to let me know about your feelings. Jedi, Ich war nicht dabei -I wasn't there neither but I'd have liked to be there. Imagine
the feelings about a mother being able to see her kids again,etc. So many peoples life have been destroyed just because of the WW2 with capitalism on he west ad cummunism on the east. Of cause, later on it brought a lot of problems of unemployment etc, BUT Human rights were saved. But, as Francky said, so many walls to be broken down yet.

Hi Pia.I was i Berlin when the wall was still there too, and you're right, : "Inspection" and I was not allowed to go wherever I wanted. Yeah,and I think it was greater step for humanity than the "1st step on the moon.

Well, we found out much later. These kind of things were not for the ears of the common Romanian. Luckily it existed a radio called Free Europe, which transmitted in Romanian and they kept us "updated".

Yeap, there are almost 20 years since we've got our freedom.

Francky, not only that part of the world suffered, all of us under the Soviet occupation were treated the same. In '45 there were families in the eastern part of Romania who were just putting their children in trains and sending them elsewhere just because, otherwise, they would have died of starvation. And I don't even start talking about Poland, that country had the sadest and most tortured history.

We should not forget that common people suffered the most, everywhere in Europe during and after the war. Some much more than the others. And this should be a rememberance for those who praise communism or any kind of extremism.

Now I realized I actually witnessed how history was made, I can not believe it!

That radio seems to have done a great job Andreea!! I became curious (never heard of them before, but Google has all the answers ) They still broadcast... but not to Romania anymore.

I was quite young but I remember watching the wall fall down on tv. That was exciting.

Now, I have a ridiculously small piece of wall at home from my last trip in Berlin (but ridiculously expensive too!)

Yeap, jp, but you have it!

pias, that was our piece of hope, it was the only way we could be informed on what happened worldwide and, I remember that so well, it was the only place where we could hear music, "western" hits, which, by the way, were "rotten". There I "met" Bon Jovi and Richard Marx first time when I was 17

Nice times actually if I try to let out some other aspects.

Sounds like a very important radio-station during that time Andreea!! I guess I can never realy understand/ imagine how it was for you people, to be barred from the world around.

But... why did you listen to that music, if you thought it was rotten???