November 9 in Germany: From the Fall of the Wall to the Pogroms, Crucial Date

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On November 9th it represents lights and shadows, the deepest abysses and the happiest moments in our history.It is remembered by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) citing three significant events that occurred in Germany on this date: the proclamation of the First German Republic in 1918, the Pogrom of November 1938 in the Third Reich and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To these we must add the failure of Hitler's putsch on Nov…

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sees democracy in Germany under the greatest pressure in decades. Speaking at a commemoration ceremony on November 9, which marks the anniversary of the founding of the Weimar Republic in 1918, the anti-Jewish pogroms during Kristallnacht in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he warned today at his Berlin residence at Bellevue Palace that freedom and basic democratic values are currently under …