Two important anniversaries happened yesterday that we should still remark on, even a day late, amid all the hubub. The actual events happened 51 years apart, but both took place, or at least started, in Germany. On November 9th 1938 the series of attacks and pogroms known as Kristallnacht occurred in Germany and German annexed Austria and the Sudetenland part of what was then Czechoslovakia.
Today, we remember one of the most dreadful days in German history: #9November1938 #NovemberPogroms #NeverAgain #9Nov #9November pic.twitter.com/jgC3OuMaQz
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) November 9, 2016
The other was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Today, we remember one of the happiest days in German history: The fall of the #BerlinWall on #9November1989. #9Nov #9November #NoMoreWalls pic.twitter.com/JXTwoMP70z
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) November 9, 2016
These two events – one of humanity lost and at its most depraved and the other of humanity’s desire for freedom and liberty – are important reminders in uncertain times.