It is hard to believe but this October Germany already gets to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Unification; the culmination of a process that started with the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989! With its rise on August 13th, 1961, the course of Germany’s and especially Berlin’s history took a tragic turn. It would take 28 years for this cruel and inhuman symbol of Germany’s division to come down, thus giving birth to yet another period in this European nation’s remarkable evolution. Join German Historian and Ex-Berliner Anette Isaacs, M.A., as she presents you with a historical and political overview of this painful but also almost miraculous period in Berlin’s captivating history.
