Germany marks 20 years since reunification
Published: 31 August, 2010, 06:30
Edited: 01 September, 2010, 05:37
Germany is marking the twenty-year anniversary since it was formally reunited on August 31, 1990, after a treaty sealed the dissolution of East Germany and its integration into the West.










I got there in December of 1961. While at dinner for Weinacht Fest (Christmas) in an elegant restaurant on the Kufurstendamm, a fraulein asked me to push the wall over with a US Army truck, stating that the Russians were too cheap to use real mortar on the blocks. She had escaped from the DDR a year earlier, and was angry that I did not want to start WWIII as a US Army Private First Class. Wonderful goose dinner for DM5