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What Makes Berlin So Unique? Barney White-Spunner © Provided by The Daily Beast Leonardo Patrizi/Getty Berliners started knocking down the Berlin Wall, block by block, on Nov. 9, 1989. That monstrous barrier of concrete and barbed wire, with its watchtowers, death strips, machine guns and officious border guards, which had divided both Berlin and Europe for twenty-eight years, was demolished over the following weeks so that nothing remained apart from small sections preserved as a reminder of what had once been and the suffering it had caused. Reunification of East Germany the German Democratic Republic, or GDR and West Germany the Federal Republic of Germany, the FRG followed just under a year later. Surely, many assumed, the reunited country would logically decide to restore Berlin as its capital? Berlin was the natural

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