ABSTRACT
At the end of 1989, an 82-year-old West Mödlareuther observed the events unfolding in his backyard in shock. He told a local journalist, “I would have never thought I would experience this.” 1 “This” was the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the fall of the wall in Berlin and, more importantly for the villager, the fall of the wall in Mödlareuth. 2
