The wall came down in a peaceful revolution on November 9, 1989

People crowd in front of the Berlin Wall in 1989 as they watch East German border guards demolish a section of the wall. A daring escape bid, a tragic love story -- 20 years after the Berlin Wall fell, two men who tried to spirit their East German families to freedom in the West have been honoured in a moving ceremony.
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