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Originally Posted by Rainger99
Does anyone remember 11/9/89? It was the day the Berlin Wall fell. Has anyone been to Berlin - either before or after it fell? I was there in 1981 - the most interesting city I ever visited. I went through Checkpoint Charlie to visit East Berlin. I was so glad that I was able to go back to West Berlin and freedom.
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I was there on Reunification Day October 3, 1990. They symbolically dropped a Trabant over the wall from the East German side to the West German side. It was quite a celebration.
Coming in from West Germany we were in a traffic jam that must have lasted a couple of hours. We thought oh, oh, maybe we should have gotten visas. It turned out the entire problem was having a four-lane freeway drop down to a little winding road going through a border checkpoint, complete with overlook towers, etc. - all unmanned at this point.
The memory that sticks with me was the difficulty of leaving Berlin at night. Berlin was designed to keep people in, not let people out, so there were no road signs pointing to an exit. It took us forever to find a road out.