This is probably not going to help all that much, but...
I wasn't anywhere near Germany - I'm in Canada. But I remember very well when the wall fell. I was in college, studying journalism at the time. We spent hours glued to our TV sets watching the news every day. We couldn't believe it was happening. There was LOTS of media coverage. I remember one night watching the news, my friends and I were sitting on the floor in the living room and clapping and hugging, because it was just such a wonderful thing - full of promise for the future and for peace.
At the end of the school year, we presented our Current Events teacher with a piece of the wall that we bought for him -- this man was a very stern person, never smiled much and never showed much feeling, but he was the best teacher we ever had; he cried when we gave him that as a gift.
Perhaps this can help a little bit more:
Berlin Wall - from Wikipedia
