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Article: The day that East met West... and its culture; The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today. Hannah Davies remembers what Britain was doing as the wall fell.(News)
- Article from:
- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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ON November 9, 1989, a spokesman for the East German government announced during a Press conference East Berliners would be allowed to cross the border into West Berlin.
Immediately crowds began gathering at either side of the wall and overwhelmed guards began letting people cross through into the other side of Berlin with crowds cheering as the historic crossings began.
Soon people across the world were glued to their TV screens as footage showed the dismantling of a poignant symbol of the division between Eastern and Western Europe.
The world ...