TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, on October 3, 1990, divided Germany achieved its unification, celebrating at midnight with the pealing of bells, national hymns and the jubilant blare of good old German traditional songs. Three years earlier, during a week’s break from my studies in London, a German couple from Hamburg, my friends of several decades, took me to see the Berlin Wall. The guard checked the color of my eyes as indicated on my passport, the credible reference to my identity. Eleven years after unification, the same couple from Hamburg again took me to Berlin. We leave to experts the political lessons of German unification.

Source: Manila Times October 05, 2017 18:45 UTC