Internet giant Google on Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with an interactive video doodle. The Google doodle shows a video depicting the scenes as West Berliners greet their eastern
counterparts on the night in 1989. The video also shows pieces of the fallen wall in various parts of the world, including Berlin, London, Seoul, Cape Town, Madrid, Island of Langeland, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Budapest, Ein Hod, Mountain View, Strasbourg, Kiev, Sofia, Washington DC, Brussels, and New York.
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From 1961 to 1990, the Wall had divided West Berlin from the surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in 1989. When it was toppled on 9 November 1989, it marked the end of 30 years of division in Germany and paved the way for the official reunification of Germany in 1990.
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The Wall was constructed on 12 August 1961 to separate the communist-controlled East Berlin from West Berlin. Originally, the Wall was separated by a barbed wire, before becoming a fence, and then a fortified pair of walls with a huge no man's land between. The finished wall was made up of a 66 mile concrete section that was 3.6 metres high, with a further 41 miles of barbed wire fencing and more than 300 manned look-out towers.
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Google doodle team led by Ryan Germick and Liat Ben-Rafael said they went to the local public library to study an actual piece of the Berlin Wall.
"This graffitied chunk of concrete, once a literal division, has been transformed into a symbol of unity, a reminder to passersby of the triumph of the collective human spirit. It was moving to see it in person and, appropriately enough, spray-painted on this special slab are the German words "Wir lieben dich" — "we love you". Determined to share this experience on the doodle and others like it around the world, we enlisted several folks and are grateful for their help. Our friends at veed.me arranged 17 international film crews to gather footage. The German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) provided powerful archival photographs by Klaus Lehnartz and Heiko Specht to set context for the video", mentioned Ryan Germick & Liat Ben-Rafael in their official note.
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