The Accidental Fall of the Berlin Wall

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05/11/2014 13 min Episodio 4
The Accidental Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Professor Mary Elise Sarotte, a visiting professor at the Harvard Center for European Studies and author of “Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall,” explains how the opening of the border between East and West Germany came down to a decision by a single border guard.

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