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Nov 9, 2017 7:37 PM
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znayesh
28 years in place, 28 years free... sweet
seggirll
9/11
SinAlma
Today marks my step mom's birthday. Coincidence? Almost certainly
Salai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs
QtheM
It's now been down almost as long as it was up (August 1961-November 1989)
Dyaeus
Wir sind ein Volk!
marderfucker
We also commemorate the Reichsprogromnacht today, a pogrom against jews that happened here in germany on 9.11.1938.
nomunnywunnytilugetthebunnyhunny
Thanks for making me feel old.
thorgod
Welcome to Kapitalism
Rasdwatrium
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR FREEEEEDOM
madrush
I remember visiting Berlin something like 8-10 years afterwards with my grandparents. My grandfather was so emotional having the ability
ManualWindowedSubmarine
to shove 10 million phalli into his rectum in order to bestow peace to the universe.
HallelujahBarron
to get laid on both sides of the once impassable wall
PepperPeanutsVagenis
You could have continued your next comment under this one.
LordOfNapTime
To cross over. It was his first time in Germany since the fall. - just in case your comments get separated.
madrush
+1 to you good sir
whatupmyknitters
you are the real mvp
hotbeef69
And also the anniversary of the last time we saw David hasselhoffs terrible light bulb jacket
Dunekoon
THANKS OBAMA
SwaghettiYologneseWithMemeballs
I was five years old back then and I have absolutely NO memory of any of this. I guess political news just didn't interest me at all.
ProphetChuck
I remember that day, the fireworks and loud cheering. People started opening sparkling wine bottles and shared glasses around.
JMcDank
It is also my birthday today. Coincidence? Maybe.
RandomStardust
One day, Korea will have this day. Be it many or be it few. May it be a celebration, because as a remembrance it would be a utter failure.
Atalung
Tomorrow is the 42nd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Amesang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
Nebayo
dogfrost9
I've been lookin for some freeeeeeeeeeeefom!
ThrowawayHBS
That jacket tho
Bigemedic
I was there, in the Army. My unit was on alert to help set up a tent city if hordes of East Germans poured over the border. What a time:)
mabbo
Must have been at least a little scary. A lot could have gone wrong during that, no?
sharkbirdbitecaw
I remember watching it on TV and knowing I was seeing history happening. What a great day.
misterwit
I am reminded that I'm 28 years old.
Mavgurian
Shut up, puppy.
TexasBaconMan
Senior year of high school. I remember who told me about it.
AngrySomnium
Same here, at least it makes remembering the year the wall comes down easy for all those random quiz events, right?
misterwit
Yeah I actually have a book that's got events from around the world that happened in 1989. I haven't read it in a while though.
PileOfWalthers
I might well be in that picture.
hungoveratworkguy
Really?! Could you do a post about life before during, and after the wall came down?
ChocolateCookieAndFudge
Story time!!!
gerf
So you're an East German. It's amazing how the border still exists in Germans' minds
PileOfWalthers
Well I do think of myself as a Texan these days.
gerf
Yeah but they still make the Slavic distinction.
KZFDG
And I most certainly am not, having been born only 9 days prior. Being alive is so strange.
ChuckNorrisAteMySock
Please tell me stories/make a post about it.
Satherian
shit yeah, history time bitches
PileOfWalthers
Well what do you guys wanna know.
mohstlyfreshreposts
Everything
PileOfWalthers
LOL, dude. Not with 140 characters available. I did a reddit AMA once though.
katseiko
Germany's 9/11 is just so much cooler.
marderfucker
"Our" 9/11 is not just wall, though. The Reichspogromnacht happened on 9.11.1938, and both events are equally commemorated here on this day.
EmanNiemThcin
Also the abdication of the last emperor and a couple of other things.
mardonious
or Krystallnacht, as it used to be called
ZimGenzko
First of all it’s Kristall and that’s the term the nazis used.
mardonious
thats the term everyone used until a few years ago
ZimGenzko
They changed it in Germany though.
stormegedendarklordofall
It's also the anniversary of kristalnacht :(
50centromere
It's called the Reichspogromnacht. Both are commemorated equally in Germany on this day.
AmArschdieRaeuber
we don´t call it that anymore
LitteralyHitler
What do you call it now?
AmArschdieRaeuber
Reichsprogromnacht. Kristallnacht sounds too romantic, probably wasn't that beautiful
Duvn
It's Kristallnatten in Swedish, which is a pure translation to kristalnacht so the term is still used in some countries :)
50centromere
There's quite a debate about the term in Germany. Originally "Reichskristallnacht" was a bitter joke created by people critical of the
50centromere
regime. In 1939 the NSDAP adopted the term. After the war people found that "Kristallnacht" sounds too glamorous, too much like an event
50centromere
in a fairy tale. So "Reichspogromnacht" was adopted widely. In Germany, if someone uses Kristall, it is usually written in quotes to signal
50centromere
that it's the "so called Reichskristallnacht".
justadudeincolorado
Still one of the greatest "I remember exactly where I was" moments of my life...
fragfrog
Well. And where would that be?
justadudeincolorado
I actually lived near Frankfurt at the time (My father was in the US Army and was stationed there)
Rasdwatrium
In my mothers womb
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justadudeincolorado
I was a little older (14) but, lived in West Germany (my father was in the Army and stationed there)
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justadudeincolorado
Definitely one of the high points of an amazing life thus far :-D