The Fall of the Berlin Wall: A Forgotten Part of the Story

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall: A Forgotten Part of the Story

E. Wayne Merry

November 9, 2014inShare

Twenty-five years ago, the opening of the Berlin Wall transfixed the world, but somewhat obscured a bigger story: the peaceable seizure of the state by that part of East German society that did not want to go to the West.