he people of the differingBerlins, were in some instances family, The years of the separation were leading toan uprising. The new generation of Berliners had never known the city as one. President Kennedy upon visiting Kennedy made his famous statement Eich Bein EinBerliner. This translates that he like the citizens of Berlin was also a citizen ofBerlin. This statement when given through original translation stated that Kennedywas Berlin. This according to my guide on my original tour of Berlin. Thestatement was corrected for its press release however.When Gorbachevs perestroika swept through the Soviet Union and EasternEurope, the storm of reform did not skip over Berlin. East Germans watched theborder between Hungary and Austria come down and began leaving at the rate of200 people a night. The citizens of East Berlin were becoming agitated, thegovernment was in no position to resist them and in November 1989 the wall camedown. People all over the world witnessed this on CNN, People from all overwanted to be involved in this historical occasion. The wall had served as a symbolfor a generation in Germany, that had been split. On the world scope people wantedto have an impact on this major culture event that changed Europe. When the wallwas finally penetrated people stopped in silence to remember those who had died inattempting to escape to the West. In February 1989 the last killed refugee wasChris Gueffroy, He nearly made it across but was caught in barbed wire whilecrawling across, he was shot while entangled in the wire. He like many otherssuffered the fate of death in attempting to reach something he had never attainedfreedom. Only nine months later the sweeping reforms were to open the wall again. If he had only known. If any of the people who died had only known that it was notas permanent as believed. The cultural generation of this divided city for ageneration would ultimately create hopefully the new capital o...
