A large hole broken through the concrete of the Berlin Wall. A woman steps through the hole into the west, as people gather.
“Fall of the Berlin Wall.” Discovery Education, Getty Images, app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/0abe36f7-b6d2-4dd6-af6f-fb3b29af2eda.More about Ronald Reagan's speech and how it came to be: Tear Down The Wall!
In 1989, head of state Erich Honer made this statement about the Berlin wall; "The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years," but he was proven wrong when the Berlin wall was eventually taken down.