The Night The Wall Came Down -- Times Online
The photographer Robert Wallis was in Berlin by chance on November 9, 1989. Here he shares his pictures and memories
On a grey Wednesday in November 1989 I was on a train from Amsterdam to Leipzig, on assignment (for Newsweek) to cover the growing anti-government demonstrations in East Germany. At the border East German guards decided that my visa was not stamped correctly and removed me from the train. Held overnight, I was put on the first train heading west the next day and disembarked in West Berlin. It was the afternoon of November 9. I phoned my editor in New York to say that I would stay for a few days to work on a new visa, then headed for bed, exhausted after my sleepless night at the border. A few hours later I was woken by New York calling back to say that they were watching “breaking news” on CNN that the Berlin Wall was about to open. In my bleary state I found this hard to believe but from outside I could hear car horns honking.
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