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STAFF WRITER 1:19 HRS IST

K Mammen Mathew

Berlin, Nov 9 (PTI) German Chancellor Angela Merkel today thanked former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for allowing the Berlin Wall to collapse, as she visited a former border crossing between the once divided Germanies, and what was once a border gate, marking 20 years of reunification.

Accompanied by Gorbachev and former Polish President Lech Walesa, Merkel initiated today's celebrations by symbolically walking across the Bornholmer Bridge, which once stood between the divided East and West Berlin.

The Bornholmer Bridge border crossing was the first East German border crossing to be opened on November 9, 1989 after the former East German government eased restrictions on travel to the West in the wake of mounting public demonstrations.

The opening of the border for a few citizens had led to an unstoppable outpouring of East Germans to West Berlin, finally bringing down the Wall.

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