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2. EXPLAINED: How October 3rd became Germany's national holiday
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• Was ist „Tag der deutschen Einheit”?
  "German Reunification Day" commemorates the anniversary of German reunification on October 3rd in 1990, when the goal of a united Germany that originated in the middle of the 19th century, was fulfilled.
  • Background of "Day of German Unity" or "German Reunification Day"
  • What do people do on "German Reunification Day?"
  • Celebrations
    1. Ceremonial celebrations
    2. How to celebrate German Unity Day nationwide
    3. Best images from Day of German Unity celebrations
• Background of "National Holiday"
  • History of "National Holiday" in Germany
    1. Period before 1919 (das deutsche Reich, 1871 to 1918)
    2. Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)
    3. National Socialism (1933 to 1945)
    4. Divided Germany: 2 states within Germany (1949 to 1990)
       Federal Republic of Germany / FRG (der 23. Mai 1949 to 1990)
       Bundesrepublik Deutschland / BRD
       
       German Democratic Republic / GDR (der 7. Oktober 1949 to 1990)
       Deutsche Demokratische Republik / DDR
  • Trends of "National Holiday" in Germany
    1. Decision of GDR’s unity with FRG
    2. How October 3^rd became German Unity Day?
    3. Attempt to change the date of the national holiday (2004)
    4. Reactions, opinions, and comments about the holiday
• Wiedervereinigung (reunification): der 3. Oktober 1990
  • Information
    1. Words you need to know for reunification
    2. Ten German words to understand modern German history
    3. The 3 architects of German Unity
    4. Helmut Kohl (1930 to 2017)----Father of German Reunification
    5. Ten things you never knew about German reunification
    6. Reunification: a look back from the archives
  • Facts and figures:
    1. Highlights of the division and unification of Germany
    2. Timeline from fall of the Berlin Wall to German Unity
  • Trends with Germany’s Reunification
    1. Anniversary celebrations
    2. Reunification Report
       • Report indicates big gains in former eastern states (2013)
       • Annual Unification report (2015)
       • Wounds still hurt today despite progress: 28 years of German unity (2018)
       • German Unity Day: Reunification is "ongoing process" says Chancellor Merkel (2019)
    3. Historical questions:
       • How united is Germany after 23 years?
       • What if Germany had never been reunited?
       • German reunification: What still divides East and West? (2020)
    4. Germany faces old problems 30 years after reunification (2020)
    5. 30 years on: German government hails success of reunification (2020)

Tag der Deutschen Einheit