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The decision of the German Chancellor to take in these people not only divided German society, but also led to major upheavals in the European Union that continue to this day. On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 2019 the situation had changed: The carefree celebration and serene thoughtfulness of 2014 had given way to a palpable tension. Plans for public events such as the one planned for November 9th, 2019, at the Brandenburg Gate or along the course of the Wall were subject to previously unknown security considerations. Following the Islamist terrorist attacks in various European cities since 2015, such as the attack on the Christmas market at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz, in which twelve people were murdered on December 19th, 2016, public events were placed under security considerations in light of possible terrorist scenarios unimaginable only a few years earlier. And so, in the 60th year of the Wall’s construction, the hope persists that the remains of the Wall, wherever they stand, may proclaim a message of the power of peaceful protest, of courage, and of the chance for people to live together in peace.