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Thousands mark fall of Berlin Wall

Updated on 09 November 2009

Source PA News

Thousands of cheering Germans have re-enacted the electrifying moment the Berlin Wall came crashing down - toppling 1,000 graffiti-adorned 8ft-tall dominoes that tumbled along the route of the now vanished Cold War icon, celebrating 20 years of freedom from separation and fear.

The spectacle - billed by organisers as a metaphor for the way the real wall came down and the resulting fall of communist countries in eastern Europe - was one of several events to mark the anniversary and celebrate the profound change it had not only in Germany, but Europe and the world.

Chancellor Angela Merkel - the first east German to hold the job - called the fall of the wall an "epic" moment in history.

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