DW Documentaries

Tightrope act in Dresden - Helmut Kohl's Speech and German Reunification (2019x219)

Air date: Dec 18, 2019

Six weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Helmut Kohl went to Dresden. The enthusiastic reception he received there became a demonstration for a rapid German reunification. The speech Kohl gave there was the most difficult and probably most important speech of his life.