30.9.1989 – Homepage Neugebauer Family https://www.neugebauer.name/en/ ... about all and nothing ... Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:39:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 30.9.1989 https://www.neugebauer.name/en/2014/09/30-9-1989-2/ Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:17:27 +0000 http://www.neugebauer.name/?p=3279 Continue reading 30.9.1989 →]]> 25 years ago: Thousands of people from the GDR are trying to flee their country and have entered the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in order to get a VISA. German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher on the balcony of the German Embassy in Prague announces to the crowd of refugees what had been impossible so far… well only so far; although it is in German, you can understand… he cannot finish the sentence even.

Seen a thousand times, but each time goose-bumps.

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_East_Germany#Regime_collapse.2C_1989

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