In 1982, US President Ronald Reagan traveled to Western Europe and found a worried continent. The danger of a nuclear conflict between the East and the West had grown, and the USA was massively arming itself.  Berlin's social movements opposed Ronald Reagan's state visit.  The demonstration in Schöneberg was banned by the authorities, but thousands still reduced Nollendorfplatz to rubble. (published by Zitty Verlag GmbH) 

Five years later, Ronald Reagan returned to Berlin. On June 12th he gave a historic speech to 25,000 Berliners and Americans. He called for an end to the arms race between the USA and the Soviet Union. 

The wall henceforth ceased to function as a political barrier between East and West Germany. 

This small group of Army Security Agency Operatives, whose presence in Berlin from before the Berlin Airlift until this momentous occasion, lived with and share the tears, the angst and the joys, as the Berliners restorated the culture they had been taken away from them.  They helped us understand, by action and tenacity, our Founding Fathers (Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Madison, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin) cautions to beware of what we would face maintaining a true Democratic Republic.  

East Germany’s hard-line communist leadership was forced from power during the 1989 wave of democratizations that swept through eastern Europe.  On November 9, the East German government opened the country’s borders with West Germany (including West Berlin), and openings were made to the Berlin Wall through which East Germans could travel freely to the West.