COLUMBIA — On the night the Berlin Wall came down, Olaf Schmidt did not go to Berlin. In fact, he didn't learn about it until the next morning. When he heard, Schmidt and his brother drove from Madgeburg to Berlin at once to see everything first-hand.
MU lecturer recalls life before and after the Berlin Wall came down
Monday, November 9, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CST;
updated 9:48 a.m. CST, Monday, November 9, 2009
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