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Atop the Berlin Wall

Atop the Berlin Wall

New Zealand journalist Liam Jeory was Television New Zealand's European correspondent at the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Here he straddles the wall before its demolition, with one leg in East Berlin and the other in West Berlin.

Photograph courtesy of Liam Jeory

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Reference: Cameron Bennett, Foreign correspondents Cameron Bennett, Liam Jeory. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1995

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Gerald Hensley, 'Cold War - The last decade: the 1980s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/32717/atop-the-berlin-wall (accessed 17 April 2024)

Story by Gerald Hensley, published 20 Jun 2012