Publication: Window to the West: How Television from the Federal Republic Influenced Events in East Germany
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1990-07
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Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
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Buhl, Dieter. "Window to the West: How Television from the Federal Republic Influenced Events in East Germany." Shorenstein Center Discussion Paper Series 1990.D-5, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 1990.
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Only a short time after a member of the East German Politburo (SED) had announced dramatic changes in travel regulations and after West German television had interpreted them on the evening news, East Berliners began to flock to the Wall. After having been denied free movement for decades most of them were still skeptical whether on this 9th of November, 1989, they would finally be allowed to cross the border into the other part of the city. Their doubts were confirmed when the border guards stopped them with their all too well known bureaucratic intransigence.