20th Anniversary Year Of Berlin Wall's Fall Begins

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Marianne Birthler, Fedreal Commissioner for the Stasi Records, looks at documents during a visit of the Fedreal Department for the Stasi Records in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool) - AP

From Sign On San Diego:

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel chose the archives of the dreaded East German police Thursday to begin nearly a year of commemorations marking the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall.

The anniversary itself will be marked with a three-day festival from Nov. 7-9 at the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol of Germany's postwar division and then of its unification. The gate lay for years behind the East Berlin side of the wall.

There will also be an artistic re-enactment of the fall of the wall – a historic development that led to the end of East Germany, where Merkel grew up.

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