And hans jurgen legler were also at the wall on the night of november 9th 1989 today their guests on the film said. This was sponsored its amazing to watch 25 years later. I am i am i was i. I can enhance here going later live to what was then communist east berlin for them a film set is like a journey back in time to the moment in which their lives and the country they lived in changed forever. First its a very emotional moment for me watching this right now even though of course its just a movie. Trying to cut 2nd Hans Martin Fleischer 1st met each other on bornholmer bridge that night. She lived in the east and he lived in the west of the divided city. Most inclusive with the people started shit makes me start to choke up i feel like i want to join in but its just. An amazing moment its like a journey back in time to this and. Credible moment in history absolutely. For catron and hans martin that chance meeting on the bridge sent their lives in a different direction. Looks yes going to lived in west berlin filk a family in the east for years they were separated by a wall but they kept their friendship a lot. On the morning of november 9th 1909 the wall still seemed a fact of life impervious man hell be. A moving van was underway in the east berlin district of france lower back. It was headed to the village as apartment. The movers were there to pick up to fill his belongings after 3 years of waiting their application to leave east germany for the west had been approved. They were due to leave on november 13th 1809. I knew we dont really put out a few boxes of the things we were going to be allowed to take with us and we and plans for them to need the movers came in early in the morning of november 9th to our apartment to take them to look at his apartment and so him thats the room there for him. Looks yes good lift on kaiser doc in west berlin. Hes often. In funk in them and my father was here when the movies came out when i got home from work coming out of apartment in the company in the back the full of moving boxes for them to be longing to do they have a family. Going into build a family had been friends for years they went on holiday together in hungary. 4 days later they were planning to see each other again in west. For their son johan in the upcoming force excited but also a bit scary yea i. Done wouldnt know im up she found a good guy posse with taken some sweets at his day. We couldnt take all of his toys so wed source of the months and told him we could only keep the things that were the most important to him because we told him wed bring the rest of his toys to his friends that day care. For the family leaving communist east germany meant that they would leave everything behind their families their friends and their old way of life. You know. The small. Oh he thought it wasnt easy. We had many high most thinking wed never be able to go home when were grown up and visit every one on one with denise but you didnt know what the regime would do. We had that people who left we never allowed back to visit us who were close and often. But that night everything changed. 25 years later in the dressing room of a film 500 people gathered to recount those events in a made for t. V. Movie called bornholmer strawson. No. 4 i k and hans youre going lechler the visit to the film set it was like a journey into the southeast is going to get because i. Mean some a couple were engineers at a state owned signaling technology company. November 9th 1989 was a thursday a work day like any other for the young couple. Raising our children gemini and we had what we had everything we needed if you went just as you have you have to remember that my husband and i we were an ordinary family going about our daily life. And we lived in ordinary times that we didnt call attention to ourselves im going to have. A family lived on the 11th floor of a prefab high rise in east berlin they had plans for the evening. As they had to have woods on him it was my birthday so wed send the children to grandparents so that my husband and i could spend the evening together. And i know michael would suck but. We went to a restaurant called still pool with reservations we made 6 months earlier on when we had a nice meal and drove home planning to spend the rest of the evening together celebrating my wifes birthday why it bored stop manifold begin with on the moon by the t. V. Was on and then came schabowski press conference as a confluence but before its been 6 Police District offices and east germany are instructed to issue travel pieces without delay. Karen and frank who had been planning on leaving 2 days later read a Goodbye Party with the neighbors and the t. V. Was on the month or so far as i know it takes effect immediately. At 1st i didnt really understand what was happening. In west berlin but yes go built this friend was also watching the news on t. V. According to the east german politburo like a show Gunter Schabowski with east germans will be. Had to leave the country. Maturely shut mind of course i immediately thought can this be true. Whats going to happen of course that so and then a few minutes later the phone rang and it was frank calling me. In the scenes of i said to him lets did you hear that he said yes lets go and meet on almost cost under the new font im on a softer than my husband said look what if the boat is about to open im coming to get you and well go get out things together and ill get you honey stressed ill be back in a moment if my life put on my tennis shoes and ran to the most 700 metres azerbaijans even though its been you know it was the one i got in my car and i headed over there driving a bit faster than allow to probably on my way to bornholm a bridge. So long that when that announcement on television often said we wanted to see if we could actually do it. This man is an assistant at some country. At 9 that evening the checkpoint behind bornholmer bridge was closed as always. In west berlin a protest march was drawing to a close on the car 1st and on boulevard the demonstrators did not want the official shop closing times to be extended but. In east berlin the 1st handful of people were beginning to head to the border one was our im rather a photographer who had been secretly documenting events. Last week that i have to film set he recalled the events of that evening. He comes home and we arrived at porno mistrusts around 9 in the evening we were standing behind him. For about 1015 maybe 20 people we were practically the 1st to arrive and it was a pretty tense situation but no guns under spongers. It is and you can see the Border Guards were aggressive they realized something was going to have some havoc on speed so quickly realized that something unusual was about to happen was behind them they kept shouting and asking whether it was true that wed be able to travel over to west berlin that night with these german id cards but after all thats what the bus looking at said on t. V. Thats how we understood it in any case theyre not doing. The protest at the checkpoint was gathering force. Was maybe but you have to be have was you have to have i dont want in any other crowd had gathered and i pushed my way through the gate had gone how much time on the ball and everyone has their incomes you were Going Forward they were fired up and they wanted to cross the border people would fence and force you and god from philco was right at the front and was captured on film by a Television Crew i am sure you know you have to be who was the moment that was also captured in the movie was fun to see you know i was very excited and thought this cant be happening you dont we were all standing there and the Border Police didnt know what to do and you all. We saw that they were on the phone talking. Because in the city and then a police car arrived and you know and communism creates a bar ive. Never been down there for the sake of public order in safety. We ask you to leave the area in front of the checkpoint and to apply at the proper registration office. There right. We cannot authorize travel permits here at this moment. One. Of the most if i was on this is complete nonsense i could have stayed at home this is utter bull loney they dont know what theyre doing a ton of awesome didnt see the irony. Meanwhile the t. V. Report had brought hikari and uncertain legler his Birthday Celebration to an abrupt close. And a modest detention still gives me goosebumps that moment we just said nothing. Will be abided. Because after we got to have you think im still there and we went to the hallway and put on our coats and whats happened in the. Woods and we got in the car and sped towards bornholmer bridge which was the closest Border Crossing on 2 of them i climbed up onto a trash can and took a few pictures and before it was quite something. Fully funded the. Honduran still has those photos. In the movie the recreation shows the crowd was still calling for the checkpoint to be open. Easiest way he could i still remember the chanting from well from my mind looking back but im impressed by how peaceful it was there was no violence and no one threw a bottle or stoned which could easily have happened it was completely peaceful well foolish. Foolish weekly the film also recalls those moments. As and then when the one of them for the me a little more and more people kept going up and saying look heres my id i want to come across now after awhile or not physical came out and said anyone who wants to cross the street to do so i was standing at the gate and i said well then open the gate and then it actually opened and i just stood there some i was right at the front so what could i do but. If i guess im going to give even if most of them pretty that her hunch youre going to like her witnessed the events while standing on top of the trash can. And is on t. V. And i saw one person pass the border checkpoint with his gun as it felt like it was just a few seconds later down the food posy just a few seconds and one more person walked through ish and then another and another. And gave them our id cards. And they stomped them. And they told us to continue that. House is the one that he says i was a bit but the next about the stem if you would not because they didnt put it on the regular spot but if you most of us and they stopped it by tonight photo thats ok and later i found out that meant wed had our east german citizenship revoked i think. It later emerged that the border official allowed a few people to pass hoping to defuse the situation. But more and more people began to managing to cross at 11 30 pm the border official opened the gate in order to try to hand the standoff peacefully ah ah ah. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. Here you go the officer came in had the barrier opened. And suddenly we could just pass through i was at the front right by the barrier and just sprinted across the bridge would be. On the western side of the bridge where franks friend books was waiting the crowd also began to move forward. Quickly i started running to the bridge and frank was running towards me and we met somewhere in the last 3rd i think it was with. Wings that was it i held up my Identity Card and it was caught on video come on i had been waiting 3 and a half years. That was how long from filk i had waited for permission to live in freedom from one moment to the next it had become reality for all east german. Cops and it was i said to look im going to fetch my wife and our son your highness and ill be right back into the community but if you dont. Well from milka headed back to his family the leg lawyers and their friends ended up in front of a t. V. Crew. On impulse suddenly there was a bright light and a microphone appeared and we were asked a question. My friend was so overcome with emotion he couldnt even get a word out. Of all this to believe me. When we saw on t. V. That we could cross without a permit we got up from our Birthday Party and hopped in the car with both of us wonder what he got to do we want to look around set foot in west berlin. Going to go back to well yes well go back. But not everyone was in a party mood that evening including contra who worked as a lab technician. Company and if its not identified pretty strongly with east germany it was my home no question kind of help me and i felt a strong commitment to it i had everything i needed really just the few. Left on Bornholmer Strasse an followed a line of cars to the checkpoint. On the western side of a student from west berlin arrived at the bridge in a party and friends brought him along. Hunch Martin Fleischer climbed onto a pillar of the bridge and watched what was happening. To him doing this and thats when masses of people started streaming over it was an incredible atmosphere up by then at the very latest as it had become clear that this was just an unbelievable historic moment and inductors i saw bush on one. Hand he decided to walk over into east berlin for the very 1st time for him it was a world that every bit as strange as the west seemed to contra. I just stood there and watched the new study i wouldnt have had the courage to cross if someone hadnt spoken to me. Yet if i had met the stuff he suddenly appeared and sat down next to me announced well where youre from offical. I said well here from the east. And he said im from the west. Comes once we started talking and i asked her if shed ever been to the west would. You say that i said im a bit afraid i dont really understand whats going on here i see it was. It was a chance meeting made possible by the events of just a few hours. I said look everyone is walking back and forth camille im from the west you know and i dont even have an idea on me he had a kind of i didnt have any connection to west germany because he does have some i was thinking id prefer to stay here in my warm cozy nest arms but hans martin was relaxed it was no big deal he had nothing to be afraid of. And he sort of pulled me along with him or not mr misquotes. By then frank had returned to the empty apartment he and his family were due to leave east germany officially in a couple of days but he did not want to wait the situation seemed to unsettle. A small country it was about midnight when funk returned and he had managed to hire a taxi driver about offering him last 100 east german mark bell. You know mark pushed open door and. I grabbed my wife my son and our suitcases and we got in the taxi and drove the few 100 meters to the border and wouldnt understand know if i might only offices in uniform looked at us probably wondering what we were up to. I thought they wouldnt let us pass on this we were the only ones with a suitcase and a child. And then one of the Border Guards i guess id given him a questioning look on said to me that direction go that way oh. My god incredible i cant believe it. Well after midnight what you just go welcome karen and your heart is filthy. And i put them in the car with their suitcases to food and look said come on lets drive along the could but it was search packed that we were hardly moving. And finally the basically stuck in traffic. And you know there were lots and lots of cars people were getting out laughing cheering with the. Head around 1 in the morning at her 1st and dom in west berlin turned into a giant euphoric Party Location vying for it was amazing a feeling of total joy from. The country and from east berlin and hans martin from the west had also crossed the. Border that no longer existed. In a science its going to get somebody to come on it was really funny everywhere we lend people also does where are you from the east or the west and he was just this wonderful at has been tarnished and adventure. So didnt type of it at least as much when we went on a sightseeing tour of west berlin. And i had my car i think we went to the Brandenburg Gate 1st one of the 12. Was there thousands of people were dancing on top of the wall. Given up on the mics and we drove around and just baskin it all soaked it all of. Us to say it was really a magical moment as momentous. The lakers have their final toast to hike his birthday on the car 1st and. As a whole thats what happened while our plan to celebrate her birthday with just the 2 of us never materialized i think we got home and to bed sometime around 4 in the morning. But the next day at 10 minutes to 7 we were back at work a full on some of them. Contra and then hans martin were out past dawn soaking up the moment. He had been sent to shop leaving we exchanged addresses and phone numbers and made plans to meet up one monday then we just figured well lets see what the future brings. Turn on hans martin fell in love and stayed together for 5 years she showed him eastern germany and he helped her find her footing and what for her was a new world. For hiking and hans youre going to take learn house for all these german citizens the next years brought many to. Balance sheets but they too found their footing. And they still take pride in that today. Was monday when i think we have to keep talking about it and remembering how peaceful it was no one lost their life when it was to move them sleeping just to me thats the most Important Message we need to remember about the fall of the wall in 1990 s. So the. Its i think both sides had a hard time imagining it could have turned into a plot by you know we were incredibly lucky that no one accidentally fired a shot up of its a stroke of good fortune for german history that that didnt have them she stood there watching just doesnt see. The wall dividing east and west berlin which would seem so permanent so impregnable was toppled over night. For your vision because we couldnt really believe it it was unthinkable it wasnt a realistic idea. That the border could just fall from one day to the next. But we were in my view it moved me to remember that we were a small part of that history into these are. Just yvonne. Just made up by the spotlight leave it we saw it happen. It changed our lives in so many ways thats something ill never forget this what. The 2 families yes because in the village has remained friends through the turbulent years followed german reunification. Sometimes they go back to bornholm or bridge to remember how they gathered there with thousands of others on november 9th 1089. Today the bridge that once separated east and west berlin is just a normal city. Like in a unified germany. Years after the fall of the berlin wall on t. W. Kickoff life. Getting a difficult times for east German Soccer Team today none of the team is from the camera east german top Division Players in the bundesliga play is that we ask a player from east. In the west. 30 minutes d. W. Because he wrote it. To keep mastodons. And he read it to the world. Ever 9989. The story behind one of the most remarkable days in recent german history. Schabowski is known as the night the wall came down. In 75. Douglas. County. Just skiver your concept. 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