‘Best Germany yet’ marks 30th anniversary of reunification

Drawing a generally positive picture of the progress made in knitting together east and west. The country’s president declared that today’s is “the best Germany there has ever been” and proposed a newmemorial to the “peaceful revolutionaries” who helped end communist rule.Germany was reunited onOct. 3, 1990, after four decades of Cold War division. East Germany joined the western federal republic less than a year after the east’s communist rulers — under pressure from growing protests — opened the Berlin Wall and the rest of the highly fortified border between the two states on Nov. 9,1989.
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