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Sat 10 Oct 2009The day the Wall came down
On the evening of November 9th 1989 the first breach was made in the Berlin Wall, which had divided Germany – and the world – for a generation. In the first of a four-part series, DEREK SCALLY, in Berlin, retraces the chain of events leading up to that historic moment 20 years ago
ON A CHILLY, drizzly morning in a weed-choked field, a crooked line of three-metre-high concrete panels obscures the horizon.Behind a derelict train station, in a field that is both the centre of the city and the middle of nowhere, stands a crumbling, forgotten stretch of the Berlin Wall.
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