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<\/p>\nOn a day of anniversaries, the Germans celebrated 20 years of the reunification of the states which had been divided for thirty five years by a repressive Soviet government and later, by their own leaders.<\/p>\n
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I took the above picture a mere 3 years before reunification near Coburg, Germany.<\/p>\n
From an Associated Press<\/a> article;<\/p>\n He said their chants of “we are one people” as communism crumbled awoke “a national feeling that was long buried, for understandable historical reasons” after the Nazi era.<\/p>\n “Now, a new self-confidence has grown in all of Germany, an uninhibited patriotism, an open commitment to our country, which is aware of its great responsibility for the past,” Wulff said in a speech in the western city of Bremen, which hosted this year’s main anniversary event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You’re welcome.<\/p>\n More exclusive (to This Ain’t Hell) pictures of US soldiers patrolling the East German border here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/us-patrol-on-e-german-border.jpg\" "\\"US")