The State We’re In Life after the wall
Gabriele Beaudin was a teenager when she escaped East Germany and fled to the West. She’d always been a rebel, but her dreams of freedom didn’t quite live up to expectations. She now lives in the United States and speaks about the deep ambivalence she feels about having grown up under communism.

Walled In

For 28 years, an almost insurmountable barrier kept people from fleeing East Germany. But one dramatic night in November 1989 saw the fall of the wall that divided Germany. Today, it is difficult to imagine what was bitter reality just over two decades ago.

In his documentary “The Fall of the Berlin Wall – From a Divided Germany to Reunification,” reporter Jens Nicolai recounts the moving story of Germany’s division and how it was overcome.