Germany commemorates November 1938 pogroms and fall of the Berlin Wall | DW News

November 9th marks the anniversary of two crucial dates in German history: the "Mauerlfall" or fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, and the November pogroms, which were perpetrated by the Nazis against Jews during the night of November 9th going into November 10th, 1938. During a German Parliament ceremony on Sunday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed the significance of these two dates in German history, as well as the challenges currently facing German democracy.

Chapter Breakdown
0:00 German President on Germany's dark history, the hope which came form reunification, and current threats from the far right
1:47 DW Chief Political Editor Richard Walker on November 9th and Steinmeier's address
8:53 Magnus Brechtken, Historian, Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, on the history of German National Socialism and Germany's complex memory culture

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