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In scenes reminiscent of November 9, 1989, when jubilant East Germans poured
across the wall, central Berlin once again came to a standstill on Sunday
night as an estimated one million people gathered along the route where the
wall once divided the city, many cheering and drinking champagne.
In a poignant moment, thousands of balloons that marked the route of the wall were released one by one to symbolise its fall. Fireworks lit up the Brandenburg Gate, which was cut off behind the wall for decades and has become the symbol of the reunited city.
The Berlin State Orchestra performed the European anthem, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, and Peter Gabriel sang David Bowie’s anthem against the wall, Heroes.
The Berlin Wall, built by communist East Germany to stop its people fleeing to a better life in the West, cut the city in two for more than 28 years and came to symbolise the division of Europe during the Cold War.
“The Berlin Wall, this concrete-cast symbol of state despotism, brought millions of people to the edge of the endurable,” said Mrs Merkel, who was among the crowds who streamed across the wall in 1989.
Earlier in the day, she placed a rose in a small section of the wall that is still standing at a simple ceremony.
Chancellor Angela Merkel laying roses at Berlin Wall memorial. PHOTO: REX
The anniversary has provided Germany, which rarely commemorates its past, with an opportunity to come together in celebration. But even amid the joy, Mrs Merkel reminded her countrymen that November 9 was also the date of the Kristallnacht Nazi pogrom against Germany’s Jews.
“It was a date of shame and disgrace,” Mrs Merkel said. “So on this 25th anniversary of the wall’s fall, I feel not only the joy of November 9, 1989, but also the responsibility of German history.”
Barack Obama also hailed the anniversary, pledging that “in Europe and beyond wherever citizens seek to determine their own destiny — we will be guided by the lessons of Berlin”.
But the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev cast a shadow over the celebrations when he used the anniversary of a moment that heralded the end of the stand-off between the Soviet Union and the West to warn that: “The world is on the brink of a new Cold War”, because of the crisis in Ukraine.
“Some are even saying it has already begun,” Mr Gorbachev, who was in Berlin for the commemorations, said on Saturday. “Bloodshed in Europe and the Middle East against the backdrop of a breakdown in dialogue between the major powers is of enormous concer
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Merkel’s message for Ukraine as Berliners mark the day their dream came true
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago should be regarded as a sign of hope for people suffering in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq
A member of the 'Zirkus Ueberwindet Grenzen' (circus without borders) bounces onto the East Side Gallery Photo: HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/REUTERS
Angela Merkel used the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of
the Berlin Wall to throw her support behind the people of Ukraine in their
struggle against pro-Russian separatists.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark the opening of a memorial to the 138 people who
died trying to cross the wall between 1961 and 1989, she pointedly sounded a
contemporary note to the proceedings.
“We can change things for the better — that is the message of the fall of the
Berlin Wall,” said the German Chancellor, who grew up in the Communist east.
That applied “especially for the people in Ukraine, in Syria and in Iraq and
in many other regions of the world where freedom and human rights are
threatened or even trampled,” she added.
“It is a message of confidence in our ability to tear down walls today and in
future, walls of dictatorship, violence, ideology and hostility . . . The
fall of the Wall has shown us that dreams can come true.”
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In a poignant moment, thousands of balloons that marked the route of the wall were released one by one to symbolise its fall. Fireworks lit up the Brandenburg Gate, which was cut off behind the wall for decades and has become the symbol of the reunited city.
The Berlin State Orchestra performed the European anthem, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, and Peter Gabriel sang David Bowie’s anthem against the wall, Heroes.
The Berlin Wall, built by communist East Germany to stop its people fleeing to a better life in the West, cut the city in two for more than 28 years and came to symbolise the division of Europe during the Cold War.
“The Berlin Wall, this concrete-cast symbol of state despotism, brought millions of people to the edge of the endurable,” said Mrs Merkel, who was among the crowds who streamed across the wall in 1989.
Earlier in the day, she placed a rose in a small section of the wall that is still standing at a simple ceremony.
Chancellor Angela Merkel laying roses at Berlin Wall memorial. PHOTO: REX
The anniversary has provided Germany, which rarely commemorates its past, with an opportunity to come together in celebration. But even amid the joy, Mrs Merkel reminded her countrymen that November 9 was also the date of the Kristallnacht Nazi pogrom against Germany’s Jews.
“It was a date of shame and disgrace,” Mrs Merkel said. “So on this 25th anniversary of the wall’s fall, I feel not only the joy of November 9, 1989, but also the responsibility of German history.”
Barack Obama also hailed the anniversary, pledging that “in Europe and beyond wherever citizens seek to determine their own destiny — we will be guided by the lessons of Berlin”.
But the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev cast a shadow over the celebrations when he used the anniversary of a moment that heralded the end of the stand-off between the Soviet Union and the West to warn that: “The world is on the brink of a new Cold War”, because of the crisis in Ukraine.
“Some are even saying it has already begun,” Mr Gorbachev, who was in Berlin for the commemorations, said on Saturday. “Bloodshed in Europe and the Middle East against the backdrop of a breakdown in dialogue between the major powers is of enormous concer
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