When the Berlin Wall fell: Herbert Rudolf

“I come from the German minority in Romania and during those weeks and months, I just listened to the radio all the time.

I had a little short-wave radio that from 7 o’clock in the morning I would put on the window sill in my kitchen, because the reception was better there.  And I listened to what was happening in Europe.
 
I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t imagine that such a thing could happen one day.

I couldn’t imagine either that in Romania something could change.

It was the era of the Iron Curtain, of dictatorship, people abroad had no idea what was happening inside Romania. 

And when the news came to us that the Wall had fallen, of course we were delighted. 

But that the same thing might happen to us in Romania, we didn’t dare believe it.”

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