Peter Millar (journalist)
Peter Millar (22 February 1955 – 21 January 2023) was a Northern Irish journalist, critic and author, primarily known for his reporting of the later days of the Cold War and fall of the Berlin Wall.Millar was hired by Reuters in 1976 and worked in London and Brussels before being sent from Fleet Street to East Berlin by the news agency, where in the early 1980s he was the only non-German correspondent.One passage Millar wrote for a Sunday Times article, about events as they unfolded in Prague, A hands-across-Prague protest designed as a human chain became instead a merry dance, a living tableau from a Breughel painting, as laughing, skipping people in warm mufflers and long scarves formed an endless twisting snake through the trees, through the snowy park, up to the floodlit spires, the castle itself and the archbishop's palace, then helter-skelter slithered giggling down steep, slippery, narrow cobbled streets and holding hands with an exaggerated formality, like a pastiche mazurka, passed across the fifteenth-century Charles Bridge, watched by all the statues of all the saints, and on to Wenceslas Square"[5] was subsequently quoted in its entirety in Martin Gilbert's A History of the Twentieth Century.[7] Millar translated several German language books into English, including the White Masai series by Corinne Hofmann and Deal With the Devil by Martin Suter.He was also the translator of several online books published by Lübbe AG of Cologne, Germany, including Apokalypsis by Mario Giordano.