Connect to share and comment  Opinion: The day after the Wall
fell  The fears of Germany and its neighbors in 1989 have
largely been resolved by 2009.  (Photos by Reuters; Illustration
by Street Attack)  NEW YORK — As the attention of the world's
media turns to Berlin, where 20 years ago East Germans freely
crossed the Berlin Wall for the first time, few have paid
attention to what happened the day after. Back then no one could
envision that the period of limbo between Nov. 10, 1989 and Oct.
3, 1990, when German was reunified, would go as smoothly as it
did. Germans, their neighbors, friends and rivals all had their
fears. What were they, and did they come to pass?  Berlin Wall
anniversary  Germans, East and West:  1989: West Germans largely
supported unification, but many were concerned about the
unreconstructed nature of Easterners (i.e., they’d been told
that they were innocent of the Nazi’s crimes, since, as
communists, they were Nazi victims). West Germans also feared
that Chancellor Helmut Kohl was hidi