Thread:Bheadr27/@comment-25819845-20150830193306/@comment-24397663-20150923203204

@Wölfchen - no, 'The Fall' happened on November 9th 1989 and the reunion almost one year later on October 3rd 1990. Without the fall, there wouldn't have been a reunion, but to have a reunion of both german states was a bit more... complicated than just having the Fall.

You see, after WWII Germany got 'divided' between the so called 'Siegermächte', i.e. between USA, England, France and Udssr. The western countries (US, Eng and Fra) took care of the western part of the country (later known as FDR - Federal Republic of Germany or BRD, where I'm from) and the eastern part (GDR - German Democratic Republic or DDR).

The people living in the western part soon got all the amenities of the 'modern/western' world including traveling around the world (except for the GDR, one needed special visas for that) while the 'Ossis' were kind of locked-up in their own country. There was a lot of government spying out their own people and really locking up those in jail, that didn't follow their line of thinking.

The east vs. west reached it's peak when in 1961 the wall was built around West-Berlin (my hometown), supposedly to drive West-Berlin and the Western part of the country apart (they called 'Anti-faschistischer Schutzwall' - a wall to protect themself against western idiology), but in reality it was built to contain their own people from leaving the country (which could be very dangerous, for the borders were heavily protected and the refugees were shot down on sight in more cases than officially known at that time... It was all part of the 'Cold-War', you know?

So, it took the Fall of the Wall to show the eastern government, that their people weren't willing to continue like that and it took many months to negotiate the contract, that allowed the two states to be one again (4+2-Talks). And believe me, if it hadn't been for Garbatschow and Glasnost, it never would've become a reality so fast...

My country was divided for 40 years, you can't imagine what it felt like becoming one again... Now there is no longer FRG or GDR, but we are simply Germany again... and that day is 25 years ago next week on saturday. I'm always touched, when I see the old tv broadcasts... I was 14 then, remember it well...

And I guess that was enough of a history lesson for now ;-))