German reunification
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German reunification, also known as the expansion of the Federal Republic of Germany, was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culmina
Germans stand on top of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the days before the wall was torn down
1990 German Unity Day, with flags of all German states at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany
An East German political event on 21 April 1946: Otto Grotewohl (right) and Wilhelm Pieck (left) seal the merger of two parties, SPD and KPD, to form the SED, a communist party that would dominate the future East German state, with a symbolic handshake. Walter Ulbricht is seated in the foreground to the right of Grotewohl.Avraham Pisarek
Berlin Blockade (1948–1949)
Peaceful Revolution
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The Peaceful Revolution – also called Die Wende – was one of the peaceful revolutions of 1989 at the peak of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s. It was a process of sociopolitical chan
Berlin wall falls, Brandenburg Gate, 10 November 1989
Monday demonstration in Leipzig, 16 October 1989
Queue outside a bank in Gera, on 1 July 1990, the day that the GDR adopted the West German currency
Otto von Habsburg, who played a leading role in opening the Iron Curtain