On Monday the 9th of November a ceremony was held in celebration of the night 20 years ago when the Berlin wall fell. World leaders such as Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown participated in this event. They walked through Brandenburg Gate which for years was part of the no-man’s land between east and west Berlin, led by Angela Merkel who herself grew up in the east and was released by the fall of the Berlin wall. It was a day of joy, in remembrance of the fall of the Berlin wall which will always be a symbol for the end of the war, but also a day of mourning as November 9th was also the date that the Nazis led attacks on Jewish people in 1938. Memories flickered in the air as people thought of that week-end 20 years ago, when the wall finally came down. There were memories of the « Trabant » cars from the East driving around the west, the eastern people shopping, families reuniting and some just visiting, finding their way in a part of Berlin they had for some not seen in years and for others never seen in their life.
The day was animated with many things including a long line of huge dominoes stood up along the route of the wall and were pushed over by Lech Walesa who led the fight against Moscow backed communism in Poland as this showed Poland’s participation in the campaign against communism in Eastern Europe. As the line of dominoes tumbled it represented the collapse of the Berlin wall and in a way replayed a moment in time.

Alexandra Bridget Bohme