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10/11/1989
As the Berlin Wall starts to be taken apart, Newsnight reports from the city on how people on both sides of the divide are reacting to their new freedom of movement. (1989)
As the Berlin Wall starts to be taken apart as rapidly as it arose, Peter Snow and Olenka Frenkiel report from the city on how people on both sides of the divide are reacting to their new freedom of movement. A studio discussion about future prospects is interrupted by Frenkiel, who brings in a piece of the wall, while Donald MacCormick in London speaks to David Shukman in East Berlin about the latest developments there. (1989)
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Fri 10 Nov 1989
22:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except East, South East & Yorkshire
Did You Know?
Egon Krenz, the last communist head of state in East Germany, took over from Erich Honecker in October 1989 and, in a bid to stop the increasing number of mass protests, decided to open the wall under a new travel law on 9 November. He was ousted by his party (the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany) a few weeks later.
Charged with manslaughter for the deaths of people killed while fleeing over the Berlin Wall, Krenz was put on trial in 1995 and sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment in 1997. He was released in December 2003 and is now a property developer in Berlin.
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