The Berlin Wall opens

Assembled from 40 blocks · 1 evidence · 22 related

1. Story
2. An East German Politburo member announced new travel regulations at an evening press conference and, asked when they came into effect, said in effect immediately — a statement that appears to have overstated what had been agreed. Crowds gathered at the crossing points. At Bornholmer Strasse the officers on duty had no applicable instructions, improvised, and were overwhelmed; the senior officer opened the barrier late in the evening on his own authority, and the other crossings followed. There was no order from above and no shooting. The precondition had been established months earlier, when the Soviet leadership made clear it would not use force to preserve the governments of eastern Europe; what happened on the night itself was a failure of a bureaucracy to control an announcement.
3. Knowledge
4. Mikhail Gorbachev
5. The Berlin Wall
6. The Bornholmer Strasse crossing
7. The Berlin Wall opens
8. Berlin
9. Connections
10. Mikhail Gorbachev
11. The Bornholmer Strasse crossing
12. The Berlin Wall
13. Berlin
14. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
15. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
16. The Reykjavik summit
17. The INF Treaty is signed in Washington
18. The Berlin Wall opens
19. The attempted coup against Gorbachev
20. The Belavezha accords
21. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
22. The Berlin Wall
23. The Berlin Wall opens
24. Berlin
25. Checkpoint Charlie
26. The Bornholmer Strasse crossing
27. The Berlin sector border is sealed
28. The Berlin Wall opens
29. The Berlin Wall
30. Tempelhof Airport
31. The Berlin blockade and airlift
32. The Berlin sector border is sealed
33. American and Soviet tanks face each other on Friedrichstrasse
34. The Berlin Wall opens
35. Berlin Marathon
36. The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald
37. Berlin moves its marathon into the city
38. The Berlin Marathon runs through the Brandenburg Gate
39. Evidence
40. Named as the standard research documentation for the Berlin Wall, the events of 9 November 1989 and the contested count of deaths at the Wall. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted. This pack therefore states the death toll as a disputed range attributed to differing counting criteria rather than as a figure, and treats the timing of the Bornholmer Strasse opening as unchecked.