Quotes of the Day
Monday, Nov. 09, 2009
With hindsight it's the border guards we must thank.
- HANS MONDROW,
- East Germany's last communist prime minister, on the East German soldiers who ignored orders to shoot to kill those crossing into West Germany and made the decision to open the border on Nov. 9, 1989
Photo: Jockel Finck / AP | Source: BBC
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