Former East German border guard officer Harald Jaeger, 79, poses in undated photo. He disobeyed orders and opened the Bornholmer Street border crossing of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989. Note: Photo is a screenshot from a video. (Newsflash)
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10 November 2022
A former East German Berlin Wall border guard officer has revealed how he went against orders to open the gates that led to the collapse of communism. Harald Jaeger - now 79 - was deputy chief of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) border checkpoint at Bornholmer Strasse in East Berlin's...