This history of the media is repulsive

Until shortly before the fall of the wall, the West German political class wanted to keep the border closed. Kohl's cooperation plan is completely concealed. Genscher's sentences from the balcony of the Prague Embassy were enforced by the masses of refugees. They just described one condition and you do not have to glorify Genscher for it now. To attribute credit to the political class and especially to Genscher in the implosion of the GDR fails to recognize the importance of the historical moment when the political class only watched in astonishment at the acting masses. Genscher's backroom policy was certainly the least significant contribution.