Podcast Episode 73 l The Fall of the Berlin Wall

09/11/2023 8 min
Podcast Episode 73 l The Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Episode Synopsis

The Berlin Wall Fell On November 9, 1989. As the cold war started to fizzle out, with revolutions and unrest all across the Eastern Bloc, the spokesman for the Communist Party of East Berlin was meant to announce a change in its relations with the west and a relaxation of the stringent border crossing laws. Instead, Günter Schabowski, a communist party official in East Berlin, played a pivotal role in the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.