BORDERS WERE YESTERDAY
Potsdamer Platz becomes a stage for reunification
Not until 9 November 1989, was Potsdamer Platz again pushed into the spotlight as the centre of the city. After the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, a totally new situation arose virtually overnight after decades of neglect. Only a few days later, a piece of the Wall was broken down on Potsdamer Platz, a previously excavated stretch of road was again asphalted, and on 12 November 1989 a provisional border crossing was installed. In 1990, shortly after the Wall opened, Roger Waters, the head of Pink Floyd, organised the concert 'The Wall' in the no-man's-land between Potsdamer Platz and Pariser Platz. It was the largest concert in the history of rock music.
