I find it hard to believe it is 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell, time flies by so quickly.  I can remember the images so vividly, it only seems like yesterday!

The BBC report on how a blunder led to the downfall of the wall:

From the safe distance of 20 years, the opening of the Berlin Wall can be seen as inevitable – the natural consequence of changes that were reshaping Europe. But for most of 1989 it was unthinkable.

And the decision itself was an accident – intended neither to happen the way it did nor to spark off the tumultuous changes that followed.

I find this link from my friend Luisa particularly interesting:

November 9 is a key date in Germany’s chequered 20th century history. It isn’t just the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall. On this day in 1938, Nazi Germany launched a pogrom against its Jewish population in which more than 2,000 people died. SPIEGEL ONLINE looks at three events that occurred on this fateful date before 1989.