Live from the night: celebrating 20 years of the wall in Berlin (10 images)
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Dominoes, umbrellas and Merkel and pals were all you needed on this rainy Monday night, a historical date, in the German capital
This couple still look a little 1989 if you ask us ....
Celebrate by putting up what was knocked down to be knocked down again. 8 November 2009. Preparations for the big celebration on the following day include a wall of domino pieces running from the Reichstag to the Brandenburg gate until Potsdamer Platz, to be symbolically knocked down. Artwork from schools around Europe
Between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg gate, by the domino wall, it's the shoah memorial. 9 November - 'Germany's destiny day' - is not only a day of remembrance for the Berlin wall, but as well for Kristallnacht, one of the darkest chapters in Germany's history as Angie Merkel stated in her 9 November speech
Memorial of the wall on 9 November 2009 in Bernauer Straße...
... here, a real piece of the original Berlin wall is still in place, as Bernauer Straße was cut in two halves
Evening celebrations, 9 November, and the domino wall comes down
Despite the rain, an enormous amount of people come to the Brandenburg gate area
Speeches come from French president Nicolas Sarkozy ('Today we're all brothers, all Berliners!' ), Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev (who spoke a smattering of German), Merkel, the Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and British premier Gordon Brown
'Without 9 October in Leipzig no 9 November in Berlin', reads this banner by a window of the (parliament) Reichstag building. On 9 October, Leipzig citizens celebrated the first peaceful 'Montagsdemonstration' in which 70, 000 demonstrated