A most hideous and much hated vice designed to prevent the East Germans to leave their country that stood for 28 years and that cost the lives of at least 136 people trying to overcome its imprisonment was unexpectedly opened by accident. Grown up sheltered in a tiny town in the East Germany, Axel Martens was watching the late night news as he saw footage of Berliners crossing the "Death Strip" into West Berlin. An event that had seemed as likely as a UFO landing on the White House lawn had just happened and it changed his life and the world as we knew it forever. Let him tell you his story, about the Wall, the daily life in East Germany in the 80th, the events leading up to November 9th, and the rare happy end of a revolution in 1989.