July 21, 1990 –
Broadcasted worldwide, Roger Waters staged an over-sized version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall near the Berlin Wall, on this date, to celebrate the actual wall’s fall several months earlier.
Shot on Potsdamer Platz, the no man’s land between East and West Germany, the producers didn’t know if the area would be filled with mines – no one did. Before setting up, they did a sweep of the area and found a slew of munitions and a previously unknown Nazi S.S. bunker, the very same as Hitler had lived his last days in as seen in the movie Downfall.
