IN PHOTOS: 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

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Posted November 8, 2014 1:17 pm

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An East German youth chips away the wall with a chisel and a hammer as East and West German citizens celebrate as the opening of the East German border was announced in Nov.10, 1989. AP Photo/file

Germany on Sunday celebrates the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism and the start of the country’s emergence as the major power at the heart of Europe.

A 15-kilometre chain of lighted balloons along the former border will be released into the air early Sunday evening – around the time on Nov. 9, 1989 when a garbled announcement by a senior communist official set off the chain of events that brought down the Cold War’s most potent symbol.