“We stood at the train station and explained to people that they are now allowed to travel to West Germany. ”

November 9 marks the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. We're accompanying the date this year with a podcast series that will be out soon. We spoke to many eyewitnesses for the project. One of them is software developer Mathias Burbach. He lives in Sydney and accompanied and witnessed the fall of the Wall and the period before that as part of the Red Cross. The eyewitness was on site with a team at the embassy in Prague in the last days before the fall of the Wall and looked after the GDR refugees who were staying there.

GDR refugees in 1989 at the German Embassy in Prague. Credit: ullstein bild Dtl./ullstein bild via Getty Images