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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
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This couple still look a little 1989 if you ask us ....
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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
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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
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Memorial of the wall on 9 November 2009 in Bernauer Straße...
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... here, a real piece of the original Berlin wall is still in place, as Bernauer Straße was cut in two halves
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Evening celebrations, 9 November, and the domino wall comes down
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Despite the rain, an enormous amount of people come to the Brandenburg gate area
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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
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'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