Okay, I was six at the time, so trust me not to know too much about politics then.
But I can tell you...
It was a surprise, to all of us, I guess. Whenever I heard of that wall, I thought that it was something undestroyable. It seemed like a menace, the German Democratic Republic (DDR) like a place where you could go to, but never return from. ( Okay, now you know that I grew up in the Western Part of Germany.)And remeber, I was five years old.
One of my school mates escaped when it was possible to leave the DDR via Hungary. She and her parents risked their lives and that was only a few month before the wall actually fell. So yea, it was a surprise. When you see the old films where our foreign mister tells the peolple that everyone is free to travel, you can see the disbelief on his face. The people were overwhelmed.
To the media...Well yes you can see many fils of every step of the process. And see, Germany wasn't independent in that time. We couldn't easily make up our mind and say...We want to reunite. There was a lot of pressure from the people "Wir sind das Volk" - (We are the people) in the eastern part of our country. Germany had to ask the USA, France, England and of course Russia.
