0.30

Daily Telegraph
9 November 1989

1.19

Daily Mail
11 November 1989

THEY DIED DREAMING OF FREEDOM

1.30

Daily Mail
11 November 1989

1.47

The Sun
10 November 1989

END OF THE BERLIN WALL!

Reds throw it wide open.

The Sun
11 November 1989

IT'S WALL OVER

1.57

The Guardian
10 November 1989

COMMUNISTS OPEN BERLIN WALL

Brandenberg Gate, until now a symbol of the divided Berlin, now became a gateway to the West.

2.10

Daily Mail
11 November 1989

One of the most tumultuous days in post-war history ended last night with East Germany's Communist rulers vowing to transform the country.

Bulldozers were tearing down parts of the Berlin wall when the promises came tumbling out of the party elite - free elections, radical economic reforms and parliamentary control of the hated secret police.

3.23

Sunday Telegraph
12 November 1989

3.37

Daily Telegraph
11 November 1989

3.50

The Guardian
13 November 1989

The thousands who came streaming across from the East, and then thousands who lined the Western side to welcome them, wept, waved, sang and danced in an outpouring of emotion that put decades of the city's division behind it. East German policemen and border guards, once feared for their hardness, had tears in their eyes. One young border guard in camouflage uniform came off duty clutching three pink carnations he had been given ...

4.20

The Sun
11 November 1989

HANS ACROSS THE BORDER

Jubilant West Germans give helping hand to their Eastern comrades as the hated Berlin Wall turns into a massive open-air party. Youngsters kissed and danced on top of the ugly concrete.

Daily Telegraph
11 November 1989

Friday night was party night on the Berlin Wall. Thousands of West Berliners gathered at the Brandenburg Gate, the heart of the divided city, and had a party on top of the Wall that has split Berlin since 1961.

They danced to the sounds of a mobile disco, popped champagne corks, set off fireworks and shouted at the ranks of East German police below: knock the Wall down. Come on over.

5.18

The Times
11 November 1989

The Berlin wall game: As thousands of jubilant East Berliners celebrated the end of the division of their city, a young man brought to the hated wall his own hammer to chip away at this symbol of Communist repression.

5.36

The Observer
12 November 1989

Who should the East Germans thank for these unexpected days of simple but for long unreachable pleasures? Themselves. The perseverance, the courage and the maturity that they have discovered in themselves in the past month became a force the Communist leadership no longer dared resist.

5.59

News of the World
12 November 1989

6.05

The Sun
14 November 1989

Wife to husband: Karl! Now the wall is down my mother will be visiting us!

Husband to wife: O.K. so I'll build my own wall!

6.31

The Sun
14 November 1989

7.01

Daily Telegraph
14 November 1989

We are, and will remain, one nation and we belong together.

Today is a great day in the history of this city and in the history of Germany.

7.22

Daily Telegraph
11 November 1989

BONN STARTS TO CRACK AS MORE ARRIVE

CRACKS began to show yesterday in the smiling face of welcome presented by West Germany to the thousands of East Germans still pouring into the country.

Local authorities, protesting that they could not accommodate any more, clashed embarrassingly with Bonn. The government insists it had a political and humanitarian duty to accept all who cared to migrate.

7.48

Daily Telegraph
12 November 1989

8.06

The Times
14 November 1989

87 per cent of West Germans were in favour of reunification.

Opinion poll shows strong opposition.

Nearly half of East Berliners oppose reunification with West Germany and, in a free election, almost a third would vote for the local communist party - more than for any other single party.

8.52

Daily Mirror
11 November 1989

WHERE WILL THE CHANGES END?