“In hindsight, it's seen as inevitable that the two Germany's would reunite. But none of the people who had laid the groundwork for the fall-those who had started the tremors and endured the security forces' brutality-envisioned a unified Germany. Those people had sacrificed their places in society for the chance to form a new one, something different and distinct, an independent East Germany built form scratch. The hadn't looked to the West for inspiration before, and none of them looked to the West for salvation now that the border was open.” PunkBerlinBerlin WallCounter CultureDdrGdrEast Berlin Book:Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall