Fall of Berlin Wall commemorated

    The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was celebrated in an event at the Technopolis in Athens on Sunday, with a re-enactment by schoolchildren.

    Addressing the event, alternate foreign minister Dimitris Droutsas stressed that the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall brings to mind the fact that "there is another country, which has such a wall dividing it", referring to EU member Cyprus.

    "In the EU, there is no room for walls, or occupation troops, which still exist in Cyprus," he said at the event, which was organised at the City of Athens' Technopolis cultural center under the aegis of the German Embassy in Athens.

    "The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago paved the way for the reunification of Germany, and not only," Droutsas said, adding: "At the same time it paved the way of other countries, which were isolated at the time, to Europe. That Wall became the symbol of freedom for all of humanity".

    The event culminated with a symbolic re-enaction of the demolition of the "Wall" by pupils of the German School and the Greek-German School.

    Written on the 'wall' was a phrase by President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias that "history is full of strong walls that fell by the hands of weak people, who stood tall".

    German Ambassador to Greece Wolfgang Schultheiss addressed a greeting to the event, while documentaries on life in former East Germany and period films were shown.

    An exhibition of period photographs and of drawings by pupils was also displayed.

   

   

   

   

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