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ssss1RIAS report on the GDR escape in the fall of 1989: “Außenminister Genscher in der Prager Botschaft am 30. September”, in: www.chronik-der-mauer.de/material/page=3&mType=3&mFilter1=1989&show=10, accessed 28.11.2020.
ssss1Quote according to Hertle 2019, p. 9.
“THERE ARE PLENTY OF GOOD REASONS NOT TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE 13TH AUGUST”1
REMEMBERING THE WALL SINCE 1990
Anna Kaminsky
“Some of you will have asked yourselves: Why has the Enquête Commission of the German Bundestag been campaigning so hard to remember the building of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago today? Is it not enough that the first Enquête Commission tried to analyse the event in several expert groups and hearings? Is the 17th June not an appropriate day to remember everything carried out by the SED dictatorship until its downfall in autumn 1989? I think there are plenty of good reasons not to lose sight of the 13th August.”2
FROM 9TH-13TH AUGUST
During his welcome speech at a commemoration service in the Bundestag in 1996, Rainer Eppelmann used these words to justify the committee’s decision to use the 35th anniversary of the building of the Wall as an opportunity to both remember and to dedicate a number of events to it. Now another 25 years later, the memory of the building of the Wall and life in the divided city and a divided world has reclaimed its place not just in the city’s memory. Moreover, in the 50th year after the Wall was built, remembering the period around its construction received greater attention in research and from the media than the uprisings of 17th June 1953.