By: Radical Ron
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The man who opened the Berlin Wall
On November 9th 1989, Harald Jäger wanted his night shift at the East Berlin border crossing at Bornholmer Strasse to go quietly. Instead, Jäger opened the first crack in the Berlin Wall and helped make history.
“But then things happened, that I would have never imagined even in my worst dreams,” remembered the former state security officer in a conversation with the DPA new service. His border crossing was the first to open – without an order from above. The hours leading up to the opening were the most dramatic in his life.
“I’m happy that only thing that flowed was fear-induced sweat and not blood,” Jäger said.
