As Germany prepares to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, several colourful art installations including photo and video exhibitions have already been set up in Berlin
However, despite the fall of the wall and economic progress in the East, a majority of Germans in the former communist area feel like second-class citizens, according to a recent governmentAt this year’s celebrations, leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from anniversary festivities, as US President Donald Trump's America First, Britain's Brexit and Russia's resurgence put a strain on ties.
Video footage linked to the Fall of the Berlin Wall is projected during a rehearsal with 3D video beamers at Alexanderplatz square in Berlin, Germany, November 3, 2019. On November 9th Germany will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. West Berlin citizens welcoming East Germans who passed the Berlin Wall border checkpoint Invalidenstrasse with an East German Trabant car after the opening of the East German border in Berlin, Germany, November 10, 1989. On November 9th Germany will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
In this Saturday, Nov 11, 1989 file photo, East German border guards are seen through a gap in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment of the wall at Brandenburg gate, Berlin. When the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union stepped back, letting East Germany's communist government collapse and then quickly accepting German unification.
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