She was relaxing when the Berlin Wall fell
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, said that she was relaxing in the sauna when the Berlin Wall fell on 9th November 1989. She was a 35-year old physicist in Eat Germany at the time and the day happened to be a Thursday. It was the day of the week she had set aside for her sauna bath. She had carried on with her routine activities as if nothing extraordinary had happened or was about to happen. After the sauna, she had a beer with one of her friends and walked over leisurely late at night to have a look at the debris. The West Germans were giving 100 Deutsche Marks to the East Germans as ‘welcome money’ and she used hers on practical goods unlike many who used it to buy consumer goods.
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@codywillard funny: from a friend I've known 30 yrs - "i joined 2 groups...on the wall post: 'joined the group Slapping the sh*t out of Cody Willard'"
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@astroengine RT @Discovery_Space: "The Berlin Wall - A Personal History" by Discovery News Editor-in-Chief Lori Cuthbert (@lcuthbert) http://bit.ly/jwk1g
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@latimestot LATimestot: Conan: David Hasselhoff sang at Berlin Walls fall. Back for 20th anniv. Sang again. Immedly they began building a new wall.
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@idesk iDeskCNN: Hope you enjoyed our Berlin Wall CNN Twitter List: http://bit.ly/3X2O4k
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@carr2n Why all the fuss about the Berlin Wall? I got a backyard fence that just about to tumble. Mother Nature, tear down this wall.
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@JohnDonvanNL ...closing the Charlie Gibson show tonight (World News, ABC) with a revisit to the Berlin Wall.
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@monicagagnier beacongal: RT @LaurenYoung RT @BW: Berlin Celebrates the Day the Wall Fell http://bit.ly/pwiH4 (Meine heimstadt!)
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@laurenyoung LaurenYoung: RT @BW: Berlin Celebrates the Day the Wall Fell http://bit.ly/pwiH4
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@NPRInterns NPRinterns: http://twitpic.com/oxa69 - Heard Madeleine Albright comment on Berlin Wall anniversary during @totn. She's made for radio.
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@tobyharnden RT @CalebHowe: Don't c how I can be moved by this wall ceremony w/out will.i.am & other celebs talking over & repeating every1
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