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Letter from Europe: Lessons From the Former East Germany

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PARIS — Like most people, I had slept through the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was Friday, Nov. 10, 1989, and I was 15 years old, a teenager with boys and ballet classes on my mind and an identity firmly rooted in the western part of West Germany. Full Article at The New York Times

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  1. encouraged and inspired the people of Berlin when he stood before the Schoeneberg town hall in 1963 and said 'All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And, therefore, as a freeman, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
    – Klaus Wowereit SOURCE: Shanghai Daily 3 weeks ago
  2. Christopher Mallaby seems to welcome reunification.
    Margaret Thatcher – Margaret Thatcher SOURCE: Deutsche Welle 3 weeks ago
  3. I really enjoyed being a physicist ... But after the wall fell, politics became my passion.
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  1. BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 09: French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) attend a bilateral meeting in Berlin on November 9, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
  2. A woman looks at an ice sculpture entitled 'Work in Progress' outside the German embassy in London, on November 9, 2009. The art installation depicts the Berlin Wall and its anniversary since it fell 20 years ago.
  3. BERLIN - NOVEMBER 09: Visitors arrive to place roses in cracks in a still-existing section of the Berlin Wall at the Bernauer Strasse memorial on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall on November 9, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
  4. BERLIN - NOVEMBER 09: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) greets U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Chancellery on November 9, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
  5. BERLIN - OCTOBER 31: Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl welcomes his guests during an event at Friedrichstadtpalast on October 31, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
  6. BERLIN - NOVEMBER 30: President Werner Gegenbauer, finance manager Ingo Schiller and manager Michael Preetz (L-R) are seen during the Hertha BSC general meeting at the ICC on November 30, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
  7. French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde reacts during a news conference after a meeting with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (not pictured) in Berlin, November 30, 2009.
  8. HAMBURG, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 29: Ralph Gunesch (L) of St. Pauli and Bjoern Brunnemann (R) of Berlin battle for the ball during the Second Bundesliga match between FC St. Pauli and Union Berlin at the Millerntor Stadium on November 29, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany.
  9. BERLIN - NOVEMBER 27: Singer Duncan Campbell of the British reggae band UB40 performs live during a concert at the Huxleys Neue Welt on November 27, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The concert is part of the 2009 'TwentyFourSeven' tour.

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  3. Angela Merkel Angela Merkel
  4. Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin
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