Today is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. While not the actual day of unification between East and West Germany, it was the day of liberation for those who had been trapped on the grey side of the wall on November 9th 1989. Although the wall was only erected in 1961, the division of Germany and its capital Berlin came about at the end of World War II in 1945 but it wasn't until the wall came down that the last dregs of the war were over.
The fall of the Wall has been used as a metaphor for freedom, including by Barack Obama when he was elected President. The Wall came down with bulldozers and hammers and used as relics and reminders, with less of the Wall in Berlin than the rest of the world.
Visiting the Brandenburg Gate not long after it was opened as a crossing
"Study the past if you would define the future." - Confucious
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