Today, it’s been 30 years since the Berlin wall came down. Berlin divided by a concrete wall opened on November 9. day night in 1989.
the memorial day festivities in Berlin participates in a number of European countries leaders.
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the president of Frank-Walter Steinmeier to take against the Bellevue castle in Poland, Slovakia, hungary and the Czech republic presidents.
Later Eastern European leaders move to Berlin wall memorial, where it is retained for some ten meters from the former wall area. The celebrations will also participate in the German chancellor Angela Merkel , who will meet later people glass Berlin the Atonement in the chapel.
on the Wall died in 1961-1989 at least 140 west to seek inhibitor. The last of them was Chris Gueffroy, by the East German border guards were shooting just a few months before the fall of the wall.
the Berlin wall history you can explore in this video:
VIDEO: Why the Berlin wall was built and how it was demolished?
see also:
the Hungarian secret plan to start the fall of communism – I saw the fall of the Berlin wall 30 years ago
the Berlin wall did to freedom in the west, all of the idol – Now domination time is over, and it can also be a good thing
“the reunification of Germany, the ghost moves over Europe” – the Berlin wall, the opening paved the Finnish road west
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