It was on 9 november 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in east berlin in a mass protest, that the berlin wall media captionegon krenz:
How Big Was The Berlin Wall. The wall itself divided the german capital city of berlin for almost 30 years. Fall of the wall 30 years on.
The berlin wall divided the city in two for nearly thirty years, separating families and friends.
Fall of the wall 30 years on. An east german worker lays some of the first stone blocks of the berlin wall, august 1961, shortly after the border between east and west berlin was sealed. A biographical handbook (berlin, 2011). This was completed by morning.
