![]() ![]() The months between November 9th, 1989 and October 3rd, 1990 were momentous - and saw several additional events that would pave the way for reunification. Even after the Wall fell, the DDR and BRD remained separate countries at first. To my Oma, my teacher, and others I grew up around who remembered that time - German reunification seemed inevitable within days of the Wall falling. ‘By the time it was actually official, it just seemed like the final step of something that had been going on for a while already.’ ‘November 9th suddenly made the dream of having a unified Germany again seem possible,’ my teacher at Calgary’s German-Canadian Club told me years ago. To them, October 3rd was an important day to observe, but conjured up a few less emotions. READ ALSO: ‘There was a human tide moving’: Berliner remembers crossing the Wallįor Oma and many other German-Canadians I grew up around, Unity Day felt a little less momentous than November 9th. It was very emotional at the time and I guess I still am too,' she would say. 'People were just so amazed at seeing that and no one really thought it would actually happen and guck mal - there it was. ‘It was the happiest day in German history,’ she told me at the time. ![]() November 9th, 1989 is remembered by many Germans as the happiest day in the history of the country, but the anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall is not observed as a national holiday. Growing up in Canada, my Gelsenkirchen-born Oma used to talk about the Berlin Wall falling with a slight waver in her voice - and sometimes even tears - decades after it crumbled before her eyes on her television screen. At first glance, November 9th might seem a better day to commemorate as a national day. ![]()
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