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Friday, November 06, 2009 
Weeks of pro-democracy protests in East Germany and then the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9th November, 1989, were felt around the world.
     The South African theologian John de Gruchy recalls how, while spending a sabbatical semester at Union Theological Seminary in New York that year, he had been asked to play host for a few days to the director of an East German institute for Marxist-Leninist studies.
     The irony of a Marxist professor from East Germany being hosted by a white Christian theologian from apartheid-ruled South Africa was not lost on de Gruchy, who for many years was active as a theologian in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
     Sitting together in New York watching the news on television, the East German and the South African saw reports of the growing crisis in East Germany and of the simultaneous escalation of protests against apartheid in Cape Town, de Gruchy's home town.
      Twenty years after the world witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, STEPHEN BROWN reflects on its significance at the time - in Germany and elsewhere around the world...

http://www.sightmagazine.com.au/stories/feature/berlinwall6.11.09.php
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