a close interest and on december 19th 1989. shortly after the fall of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the newstands the crowd clamors for german unity journalist peter lim borg was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the time interest and starts december 19th d.w. . this week on world stories. working on facet of facing food shortages. east german spies retracing history. but let's begin in france.