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the way, nobody calls the bridge by its official name
"Bösebrücke". Berliners call it "Bornholmer
Brücke", after the street.
 Here
you can look at the wall without fellow tourists
  The "Death-Strip"
 View
from the bridge
 S-Bahn
station "Bornholmer Straße"
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Bösebrücke November 9, 1989. A historic night for Germany. It was here at the Böse-Bridge, where under the pressure of about 25.000 people the frontier guards of the German Democratic Republic decided to open the border to West-Berlin. They were not authorized to do so, but they did it anyway to avoid mass hysteria and panic. Hours before, some secretary of state by accident had announced on TV that the Eastern German folks were free to travel anywhere. Immediately hundreds of thousands of East-Berliners rushed for the borders, where the guards didn't know what to do. Today the bridge is just a busy traffic point. No memorial, hardly a tourist in sight. There's still a part of the wall and you can see a large part of GDR's "Death-Strip", as the surrounding 50 meters were called.Detailed information: Wikipedia Video of the night: YouTube How to get there:
Take S1, S2, S8, S25 or S85 and
get out at Bornholmer Straße. The station is right at the
bridge.
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