As the Wall fell: ‘We were looking for cracks in the façade’

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0100

As a public affairs officer for the US Embassy in East Berlin just before the Berlin Wall fell, Peter Claussen had a unique view of life in the German Democratic Republic. The Local spoke with him about how he remembers the historic time.

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As the Wall fell: ‘We were looking for cracks in the façade’