on november 9, 1989, the east german government allowed its citizens to visit west berlin. in celebration, crowds of east and weat germans climbed onto and crossed the wall that separated the two parts of the city of berlin. over the next few weeks, the people knocked the wall down. the fall of the berlin wall will always be remembereda as a symbol of the end of the end of the of the of the ColdWar brtween theEastand the West