Fire_Raven

Watched it on TV. It was a very interesting time frame in history with the previous events in Tiananmen Square a few months earlier and the fall of various Communist regimes in Eastern Europe

srb7677

Yes, I believe that 1989 was the most eventful year in world history since 1945. Not only did the Berlin wall come down and the Tiananmen Square massacre take place, but Communism fell throughout eastern Europe, Ronald Reagan left office in the USA, the Poll Tax began to destroy Margaret Thatcher's popularity in Britain, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan, and the Iran-Iraq War ended.

pbl1998

Snap!

BRIAN GOWER

I was living in London at the time and had returned briefly to Wales to attend my father's 80th birthday with the rest of the family including my niece Michelle's future husband Kei-Uwe originally from Dortmund so that it was a happy occasion all round as we cut the cake and saw events unfold on television. However I found it strange because exactly a year earlier in 1988 at around midnight I stood alone on a stand near the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin looking over the Wall while East German guards monitored me with binoculars. How quickly everything had changed in just 12 months.

Crystal Rainbow

I had been on a back packing holiday though Europe and west Germany was one of the countries that I went though in 1987. We had gone to Bremen first where there was a large American army base there. I was with a boyfriend and we had just missed the last train to Koln and we had to sleep with the tramps. The tramps were alright they look out for one and another. It was the drunken soldiers that were making sexual passes and the pimps that looked around for young girls to work in the brothels that the scum that made hardly get a wink of sleep. We went though Germany thinking that Germany would be a better place without the army. When I heard the Berlin wall had come tumbling down I was so please that a country was going to reunite on peaceful terms.

BRIAN GOWER

Were the drunken soldiers British or West German as they sound like our lot on a train home from Paddington?

Brisieis

You lot are all showing your age!

I'm damned if I remember such a date.

Stephy

Was woken by my parents, my father carried me down the stairs in front of the TV since I was too sleepy to walk.
We lived in Dortmund in North-Rhine Westphalia.
I remember my parents telling me that the Berlin wall fell and they were so happy that I got all happy too, my mother made a late night cake and outside were fireworks. I thought it was just like Sylvester. I had just turned 6 on the 5th of November.

Vivael

What a lovely, lovely recollection. I smiled, reading this.

For myself, I was probably shirking homework and making out with boys. Alternatively, I was dutifully doing my homework, and just wishing I was making out with boys.

Probably the latter. It was the following day that I recall with more clarity, truth be told:

I remember the remarks of my history teacher, Mr Johnson, when we all assembled in class the next day (probably with my homework completed), and we discussed it. Mr Johnson didn't seem too impressed with our reaction, or the quality of our questions. We were all interested and were thrilled to be discussing CURRENT EVENTS in history class! But I remember him pacing at the front of the classroom, shaking his head.

"None of you realize what this means. None of you. But how could you? You're all too young..."

I remember several of us looking at one another, a little confused. Mr Johnson must have noticed, for he smiled and waved his hand as if to wave his poor mood away.

"And thank God for that. Now let's turn to page..."

Brisieis

In all fairness, I do remember the Berlin Wall coming down, I just don't know whether it was on the actual date or whether it was afterwards on the news, because I was quite young at the time.