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An Unexpected Perspective of the Opening of the Berlin Wall

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Keri Douglas Leave a comment

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen interviews the East German border guard who opened the gates to the west and forever changed the history of Germany, Europe and the end to the Cold War.  As Cohen says in the interview, this could have gone so differently.

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