Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell?

9 Nov 2009
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World leaders are gathering in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. What are your memories of the revolutionary events of 1989?

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What wall?

John - from Sydney, 2 years ago

I was in bed fast asleep when the wall fell. Didn't miss anything since the event has been replayed umpteen times since. A bit boring by now especially since the world hasn't learned very much from that event. Walls are still going up elsewhere, eg. Israel/Palestine.

SBS and ABC TV great documentaries about this !

m.m. - from qld, 3 years ago

Comments repeat it self , so there is another one , the unification of nearly all of Germany , just as on TV when the Russian General told Ms Rice : " YOU RELAIS NOW WE LOST THE WAR " , her head went down so her pulse , why i am writing this , me friend piked up a leaflet which the Americans dropped onto Berlin ( 47 - 48 ? ) , he was arrested at the time from the Russians , live-time jail he got for picking it up , lather dismissed , he went to the west . There is more as just a wall came down .

I was in real deal

Your mum - from Yoru mum, 3 years ago

The wall came down when I was in year 9 at school. As a reluctant german language student I had a lesson in the resource centre where we watched videoed news footage of the events taking place over in Germany.world.Take for instance the Arab World.It is still run by dictators. USA does not want to undermine the lattar because they serve its economic interests.Don't tell me Saudia arabia is more democratic than the old Poland.The West is more interested in its economic interests than promoting de

Rain over wind

Bob dowl - from New York, 3 years ago

The wall came down when I was in year 9 at school. As a reluctant german language student I had a lesson in the resource centre where we watched videoed news footage of the events taking place over in Germany. We were restless until we realised that our german teacher was crying. That shocked us. This was real. We sat and watched in silence and I have never forgotten both what I saw and understood from that lesson. I am now a german teacher myself and am need to about share it all with my pupils

I was the real deal!

Nicole - from Adelaide, 3 years ago

The wall came down when I was in year 9 at school. As a reluctant german language student I had a lesson in the resource centre where we watched videoed news footage of the events taking place over in Germany. We were restless until we realised that our german teacher was crying. That shocked us. This was real. We sat and watched in silence and I have never forgotten both what I saw and understood from that lesson. I am now a german teacher myself and am need to about share it all with my pupils

I was in Australia

m.m. - from qld, 3 years ago

Ulbrich was building the wall , to keep his people in , me mother was from over there , she just got out , to long the story , Ulbrich was the greatest brothel owner over there , the rest is history , the Russian soldiers were not happy to be there and sort of they didn't care , it was the Germans . By the way it was called DDR , later GDR / GBR , to confuse people . Sad i never saw the birth - places from me mothers side .

The fall Berlin wall has not promoted dem.ocracy!

Abdelwahab - from NT, 3 years ago

It is true the fall of Berlin wall did benefit european countries which suffered from Soviet Union dictatorship.However,it has not led to the spread of democracy in other parts of the world.Take for instance the Arab World.It is still run by dictators. USA does not want to undermine the lattar because they serve its economic interests.Don't tell me Saudia arabia is more democratic than the old Poland.The West is more interested in its economic interests than promoting democracy.

Answer....

Jack - from Melbourne, 3 years ago

By that time I was building the wall that is dividing Mexico and the USA. Why do you ask ?

School at Wilhelmshaven

Bob Collins - from Brisbane, 3 years ago

My father was in the RAF at Gatow (Berlin) and I took the train to boarding school - Prince Rupert School in Wilhelmshaven. Mum used to go shopping in the East until the wall prevented it. I did go on a tour by bus through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin. I returned to East Berlin in 1978 and met a great couple in a bowling alley. They to us to the Peoples Palace - we had a meal saw a Beegees band and drank Hungarian wine. We left by train a midnight. I gave them a five pound note!!!!

Utter Disbelief

Sabine Glissmann-Gough - from Melbourne, 3 years ago

I was born the year the wall went up in Germany. My son was born the wall fell - in Australia. I immigrated to Australia in Nov 1988 to live with my husband - a Melburnian. On 9 Nov 89 my mother and sister were in Melbourne for their first o/s visit. Watching the news we all cried and my mother said again and again that this cannot be true. My mother and father were both born in Berlin. My mother was three, when Berlin was bombed on 22/23 Nov 1943. She lost her sister and all extended family.

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