German Village Remembers How Its Own Wall Fell

An excited crowd breaks through the Wall in Germany in 1989 even as the snow falls and people tearfully embrace loved ones after decades of living apart. Berlin? Wrong. The scene recalled here happened not in the current German capital, an enduring symbol of Cold War division, but in the quiet and hilly village of Moedlareuth. This rural hamlet of about 50 people, located on the border of the German states of Thuringia and Bavaria, is now ...