The Wall started coming down 20 years ago today. Took a few months for it to really take effect, but Nov. 9th was the day that is was announced that GDR citizens were allowed to cross over, and the checkpoints were opened up.
I lived in Stuttgart at the time. I was young, but I remember it being talked about on the car radio on our way home and it was all over the news, my dad wanted to watch it and I didn't get to watch my tape of
Sesamstraße. I have a horrible, horrible childhood memory.. but that is one that for some reason I remember really well.
It took another few weeks before they were literally tearing parts of it down. Obviously I didn't quite understand it all (I really don't think I understood the difference between 'us' and the GDR at the time...) but I still remember the images, especially on the nightly news of tons of people gathering around the gates that night.
Making some of you feel old?
