Her dad is American, and her mom left East Germany in the 1950s to come to the west ... things for the good," Merkel said. "The fall of the Berlin Wall shows that dreams can come true — and ...

He took her to main air raid shelter across the road, where the rest of the family were crowded in with 200 people, and there Ms Drews waited out the fall of Berlin. She left the shelter once ...

But that meant we were constantly aware that another part of Berlin – and another part of Germany – existed. Where we lived we were able to follow closely the events leading to the fall of the ...