On Tuesday, November 10 at 7:30 PM in Gettysburg College union building room 260, the Eisenhower Institute will present a panel discussion titled "Freedom without Walls: Reflections on the fall of the Berlin Wall, Twenty Years Later."

Panelists include Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, Georgetown University, Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies; Dr. Peter Rollberg, George Washington University, The Elliot School for International Affairs; Dr. Bernd Schaefer, Senior researcher on the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and Christian Sedat, representative of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of German in Washington, DC.

This event will commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and explore the political, social and economic legacies of German reunification, current debates surrounding the former German Democratic Republic, and the effects of the fall of the Wall on the Federal Republic of Germany's foreign policy. Panelists will also share firsthand experiences from the era including Dr. Rollberg's involvement in Leipzig's Peaceful Revolution in 1989.

This event was organized by Eisenhower Institute undergraduate fellow Calynn Dowler.