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Harald Jaeger: The Man Who Started it All Celebrate 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Staff Reporter   |

Nov 10, 2014 05:32 AM EST

August 1961 - West Berlin was cut off from East Germany with the construction of The Berlin Wall, complete with guards and watch towers placed along large concrete walls. For over 25 years, the tension on both sides were high that even U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the wall on 12th of June 1987. But even the world’s most powerful man in the world was not able to put a stop to the divide.