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The Man Who Opened the Gate

Victor Homola | Emily B. Hager November 2, 2009

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the columnist Roger Cohen describes how a former East German border guard kept that fateful night peaceful, rather than filled with bloodshed.

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