It Has Been 30 Years Since the Berlin Wall Fell
Have we learned anything since then?
6 min readNov 10, 2019
On February 5th, 1989 twenty-year-old Chris Gueffroy was the last person to be killed for the crime of trying to escape “The Fatherland.” It was so wonderful in communist East Berlin, so much so that the East German Border Control was compelled to execute anyone who wanted to leave.
