Twenty years ago protests against communist governments in Poland, Hungary and East Germany started to develop, but quickly spread across Eastern Europe.
In a series '89 Voices', Outlook hears the stories of five 20-year-olds who were born in that extraordinary year.
Arno Hoelzer lives in East Berlin, he was eight months old when the Berlin wall came down.
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