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From you. Tweet as twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our face book page facebook. Com booktv. The man in charge that night the senior officer on duty that night is this man harold yeager. Cheryl yeager is the man who opens the berlin wall. Harold yeager is an unlikely candidate for that title. He is a complete loyalists. He has been working for 25 years, had an additional three years of service before that, helps to build the wall. I pull his entire Service Record that still survives and he had in all his years of service only one minor demerits and a raft of awards and promotions. This is a loyal servant of the regime. He said i believe the wall was tragic but necessary because if we had not built a wall there would have been world war iii between the soviet bloc and the west. Was bad but better than the alternative. He was committed to his job. This is not a man who was trying to bring down the regime but in the course of that night he finally, in the course of that night he b
Four decades or even more, its a little short of remarkable that were marking 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall. Its remarkable because on the one hand we can recall that event so vividly, but on the other hand, it sometimes seems like it took place a lifetime ago. Its also remarkable because for those of us who pursued our degrees and published our first books during the preceding decades, in some cases before the construction of the wall [ laughter ] its collapse seemed so unimaginable. In fact, if i can indulge you for a second, the year before the collapse, i organized a conference on john foster dulles. No one was more associated with the cold war. Some of you were there. There was lots of talk about the integration of europe. The soviets new thinking. Glasnost. Perestroika but no one was talking about the reunification this was the time john gaddes began their conferences on soviet and american relations. First time soviet and American Scholars got together. And Scott Ar
Scholarship about the causes for the fall of the wall but the proximate causes, the short term events are not wellknown in the nongerman speaking world and so i decided for the anniversary to try to put together that story as best i could and then of course as always happens when you start researching something it becomes more complicated than you expected. It ended up being a fascinating rg 31 so let me just gallop through some of the ideas in my book and then if we have questions we can talk more about them. I want to talk a little bit about the precursor to the night of november 9, 1989, when the wall opens. And then a tiny bit about how we think about these events, memory and legacy, themes that my colleagues will emphasize as well. So its important to say that the first unexpected event actually happened not in berlin but in moscow which is to say there were a rapid series of deaths. In 2 1 2 years there were four leaders of the soviet union, of course, after brezhnev died. Then a
Cody Yeager, 62, the manager and part-owner of North Montana Feeders, died of natural causes in the comfort of his home in Choteau on Oct. 23, 2023. Early that morning