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German Chancellor Angela Merkel marks 30 years since fall of Berlin Wall

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Eileen AJ Connelly
Published Nov. 9, 2019, 12:38 p.m. ET
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Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a ceremony in the Chapel of Reconciliation during the 30th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall.Getty Images
Angela Merkel lights a candle at ta memorial for victims of communist tyranny during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Angela Merkel lights a candle at ta memorial for victims of communist tyranny during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.Reuters
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Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer arriving for the start of the public show for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer arriving for the start of the public show for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.AFP via Getty Images
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The collapse of the Berlin Wall “proves that no wall is so high and so strong that we could not break it,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the barrier’s fall. 
Merkel commemorated those who were killed or imprisoned for trying to flee from East to West Germany while speaking at a memorial service in a small chapel near where the wall once stood. She insisted that the fight for freedom worldwide isn’t over
“The Berlin Wall, ladies and gentlemen, is history and it teaches us: No wall that keeps people out and restricts freedom is so high or so wide that it can’t be broken down,” said Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, The Associated Press reported. “We want to ensure that no wall will separate people ever again.”

Leaders of Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic attended the ceremony at Bernauer Strasse — where one of the last parts of the Berlin Wall remains — before placing roses in openings in the once-formidable barrier that divided the city for 28 years, USA Today reported.
Light installations, concerts and public debates were planned throughout the city and other parts of Germany to mark the fall of the Wall, including a concert at Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate.
Merkel also recognized that Saturday is the anniversary of “Kristallnacht,” or the Night of Broken Glass, an anti-Jewish pogrom in 1938 that foreshadowed the Holocaust.