German reunification
October 3, 1990
At midnight the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its sixteen million citizens became part of the Federal Republic. Flags went up over the Reichstag; crowds sang the national anthem. Forty-five years after Hitler's Reich had been divided among the victors, Germany was one country again. The Cold War was officially over.
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