Any posters here stationed in Europe (Germany) during the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Mein Freund Klaus war.
Scorpions- Wind of Change

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nearly all the women who came over from the East in the first days went to the clothing stores.

All the men went to adult book stores and strip tease bars and the "red light" district

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The women wanted clothes and the men wanted the women's clothes off.

Before the wall came down, a buddy and I went to East Berlin. We talked to some NATO soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie and they were joking around and helpful. On the East side of the wall, not so much.

You had to go through a Customs sort of process in a small building before walking into East Berlin. One of the first things they made you do was convert something like $30 in good USD or DM for worthless East money. A guy who was a few people in front of us was motioned to go to a smaller room and they closed the door behind him. The guy in front of us had a shopping bag sort of thing. The guards pulled a Life magazine out and started flipping through it. I remember seeing a big photo of Prince Charles. They told him he couldn’t bring it into East Berlin. He asked where is a trash can to throw it in and they said he had to exit and throw it away in West Berlin. That meant he had to leave, re-enter the line, and spend $30 more dollars for play money.

The guard then opened the door to the room where the first guy got sent. The guy was standing there in his underwear. The guard entered the room and closed the door behind him.

We got through without an issue but the fun continued while we walked around East Berlin. I’m glad those people don’t deal with that now.

Like black dudes in Okinawa I bet

No, but I watched Atomic Blonde 3 times so what do you want to know?

My roommate was there. He watched it coming down. He bought back a few small chunks of the wall. I have a piece in plexiglass. About the size of a 50 cent piece.

Innteresting podcast about that era

David Hasselhoff

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David Hasselhoff

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Wonder what Neil Young would have thought

Yes, I was 19 yo and had worked border surveillance on the Checkolsovakian and E German borders.

I was stationed at Merrill Barracks in Neremburg.

First, the border surveillance rotations stopped.
I worked in M.I so that was our sole purpose.

We started doing trips to the border camps, which turned into Boy Scout Jamborees with weapons, explosives, booze, fraulines and fraus.

The wall came down, but I was Down South (yeah baw) in Bavaria, so the party wasn't like on tv.

Great time to be there, overall.