Today is an important day for freedom and civil rights.
Nineteen years ago the Berlin Wall began to come down, leading to freedom for East Germans, held against their will by the Soviet East German government.
I wonder where my piece of the wall is where many years ago I wrote the word Freedom.
Today is another important day to remember as it is the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night when racist Germans received the go ahead from their government to begin the systematic discrimination of the jewish race. The camps soon followed.
Events not to be forgotten!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Germany marked Sunday the sudden end of the Berlin Wall 19 years ago, with the former mayor of West Berlin, Walter Momper, recalling it as a "wonderful gift to the Germans."The commemoration coincided with more sombre ceremonies marking Kristallnacht, the 1938 orgy of Nazi violence against Jews.
Momper, who was Berlin mayor from 1989 to 1991 and is now speaker of the state of Berlin legislature, said the date wrapped together both the peaceful revolution against communism in 1989 and the pogrom of 1938.
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