![Watching the fall of the Berlin Wall: 'I downed almost an entire bottle of schnapps' | Books | The Guardian Watching the fall of the Berlin Wall: 'I downed almost an entire bottle of schnapps' | Books | The Guardian](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ce4b4e2d834bb456288395cc3412d88de13222a8/0_0_4384_2631/master/4384.jpg?width=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1465acb83be7399058c0bdc5f12c8755)
Watching the fall of the Berlin Wall: 'I downed almost an entire bottle of schnapps' | Books | The Guardian
![Fall of the Berlin Wall: Timeline of a year of wonder, when the unthinkable became the unstoppable | The Independent | The Independent Fall of the Berlin Wall: Timeline of a year of wonder, when the unthinkable became the unstoppable | The Independent | The Independent](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/20/27-BerlinWall-Getty.jpg?quality=75&width=982&height=726&auto=webp)
Fall of the Berlin Wall: Timeline of a year of wonder, when the unthinkable became the unstoppable | The Independent | The Independent
![Detail of the remains of the Berlin Wall, Germany. Segments of wall left as a reminder of events leading up to the fall of the wall in November Stock Photo - Alamy Detail of the remains of the Berlin Wall, Germany. Segments of wall left as a reminder of events leading up to the fall of the wall in November Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/PTGAJ9/detail-of-the-remains-of-the-berlin-wall-germany-segments-of-wall-left-as-a-reminder-of-events-leading-up-to-the-fall-of-the-wall-in-november-PTGAJ9.jpg)
Detail of the remains of the Berlin Wall, Germany. Segments of wall left as a reminder of events leading up to the fall of the wall in November Stock Photo - Alamy
![World leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall with warning about democracy: 'We must not succumb to the populists' | The Independent | The Independent World leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall with warning about democracy: 'We must not succumb to the populists' | The Independent | The Independent](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2019/11/09/20/berlin-wall-.jpg?width=1200)