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Berlin Wall - 20 Years After the Fall  Tags: german_reunification east_berlin brandenburg_gate berlin_wall  

November 9, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Erected in 1961, the wall symbolized the totalitarian Soviet regime.
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The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall November 9, 1989

November 9, 2009 marked the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall  An exhibit in the James P. Adams Library commemorates this event with items from the library collection and the world wide web depicting news articles, photographs and first-person accounts of the event and its aftermath. These items will be on display through the month of November, 2009.

Tourists look at individually-painted dominoes along the former route of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. Photograph: Axel Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

 

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