Germany celebrates 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

A visitor leaves a door in the wall of the former GDR border guard forces at the 30th anniversary of falling wall in the outdoor area of the East/West German museum in Moedlareuth, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. Moedlareuth, named 'Little Berlin', was the symbol of a divided village along the borderline between East and West Germany. The border ran straight through the little village.

A man in a uniform with a soviet flag, protesting against dictatorship of capitalism, walks past the wall after the end of the official celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial site along Bernauer street in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 9, 2019.

A visitor sticks a hand through a hole of the wall for a photograph, after the end of the official celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial site along Bernauer street in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 9, 2019.

Visitors look at the Berlin Wall Memorial, where flowers stand before portraits of dead people trying to get to West Berlin after the official celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial site along Bernauer street in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 9, 2019.

People stick flowers into slats of a still-standing portion of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse following a ceremony to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

Visitors look at photographs from 1989 at Bernholmer Bridge, where on November 9, 1989, people first crossed unhindered from East Berlin into West Berlin following an unintended radio announcement by East German authorities, on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

A couple look through a gap in the Wall Memorial after the end of the official celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial site along Bernauer street in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 9, 2019.

People knock over a mock-up of the former Berlin Wall during a performance prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match Hertha BSC Berlin v RB Leipzig, at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Nov. 9, 2019.

French cellist Gautier Capucon performs at the Berlin Wall memorial, after official guests attended celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, on Nov. 9, 2019 in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. Germany celebrates 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the end of communism and national reunification, as the Western alliance that secured those achievements is increasingly called into question.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel places a candle at the Berlin Wall Memorial during the central commemoration ceremony for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, on Nov. 9, 2019 at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova, Czech President Milos Zeman, Hungarian President Janos Ader and Polish President Andrzej Duda place flowers at the Visegrad Monument during celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, on Nov. 9, 2019 in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin.

A control tower of the former GDR border guard forces at a former fortified border crossing between East and West Germany during celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 2019 in Moedlareuth, Germany. East Germany's communist authorities established a security zone along the border to West Germany beginning in 1954 with the principal aim of preventing people fleeing from East Germany to West Germany. In 1961 they also built the Berlin Wall around West Berlin, which existed as a West German exclave under Allied occupation in East Germany. The opening of the Berlin Wall as well as the border between East and West Germany in 1989 quickly led to the collapse of the East German communist government and the eventual reunification of Germany in 1991.

Visitors stand under a floating carpet of ribbons in front of the Brandenburg Gate for concerts during celebrations on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

A visitor shows a DDR- sign during the show in front of illuminated stages in front of the Brandenburg Gate for concerts on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

US President John F. Kennedy is projected on a globe shape installation, during the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 9, 2019.