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In reply to the discussion: 25 years ago tonight: "Did you just hear what I just heard?" [View all]DFW
(54,336 posts)The news tapes of the barrier going up have been declared as world cultural heritage by UNESCO.
AND---all the details we are seeing as we watch are just as we remember them EXCEPT: it was a Thursday night, not a Friday. We couldn't believe it, but my wife must have gotten an extra day off from work, as we never went up to Hamburg until after she was home from the office, and that was almost always on a Friday afternoon. But everything else is just as we remembered it.
The faces of the East German border guards as they saw thousands of their citizens streaming westward is something to burn in your memory. Something of which they had been indoctrinated all their lives suddenly crumbled before their eyes. The Wall was not to keep "fascists" out, but to keep their own people in. They finally had to admit it. Imagine all the Republicans in the USA being informed beyond any doubt that Fox "News" had been deliberately lying to them since its inception, and that it soon wouldn't exist any more. THAT'S what was on the faces of the East German border guards as they saw their people streaming westward, even though most of them only wanted to go and have a look and get home the same night.