Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The German Embassy in Amman, together with the French Cultural Center and in collaboration with the Swedish EU Presidency, will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November with testimonials, a documentary film and a concert at the Al Hussein Cultural Center.

The programme of the evening is as follows:
7.30 p.m. Welcome speech by H.E. the German Ambassador, testimonials by the Ambassadors of Hungary and Sweden
7.45 p.m. Documentary Film "How the wall came down"
8.15 p.m. concert by the Jordanian band "Sign of Thyme"
9.00 p.m. concert by the band "17 Hippies" from Berlin, Germany

The concerts, which are part of the "European Film Festival", are generously supported by the delegation of the European Commission Amman.

On 9 November 1989, the spokesperson of the Government of the German Democratic Republic by accident announced at television prime time that as of then, East Germans were free to travel to the West. The first of them immediately made their way to the border crossing points in East-Berlin, to visit the Western part of the city. For three hours the East German border police, who had not been informed about the new regulations, refused to let them pass, until they gave way in the late evening of 9 November 1989 and let thousands of people move from East to West and West to East, almost without checking them. The Berlin Wall, which had separated the city and Germany for over 28 years, had come down.


Published by: German Embassy Amman
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