08/12/2021 August 12, 2021. The Berlin Wall divided Germany for almost three decades, separating families and isolating the city's east. What role did the secret police, the Stasi, play?

The Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989, 25 years ago this weekend. East Germans flooded into West Berlin after border guard Harald Jaeger ignored orders and opened the gate for the huge, unruly crowd.

BERLIN (AFP) - Former East German bureaucrat Guenter Schabowski, who died Sunday aged 86, went down in history for his improvised answer in 1989 that inadvertently brought down the Berlin Wall.

The seven-page document dated 1 October 1973, was found last week in an archive in the eastern city of Magdeburg, among the papers of an East German border guard. "Do not hesitate with the use of a ...