Anniversaries: X years ago today

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35 years ago today, hundreds of thousands celebrated the first all-German New Year's Eve at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (feddit.nl)

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German source (Radio Bremen)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is crazy how quickly an off-the-cuff remark by an East German bureaucrat galvanized thousands of eager Germans to begin tearing down the walls. This was a country that desperately wanted unity, in the face of foreign forces prying it apart.

Just a shame that they couldn't keep that internationalist energy rolling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was the work of David Hasselhoff and you cannot convince me otherwise!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

His jacket had a massive impact. Without it we would still be looking for freedom, instead of finding it thanks to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zXiClnK8oE