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	www.bund.de Day of German Unity
		Against the background of impetus for reform from the Soviet Union (Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost", "perestroika" and "new thinking") and its rejection by the leadership of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the GDR, the exodus of GDR citizens and the mass protests that had begun late in the summer of 1989 intensified.
		On 12 September 1990 the foreign ministers of the two German governments, the USA, the USSR, France and the United Kingdom signed the "Two-plus-Four Treaty" in Moscow, under which the four powers terminated their rights and responsibilities with respect to Berlin and Germany as a whole.
		On the Day of German Unity, flags are displayed throughout the country at the highest federal authorities and the offices under their purview as well as at the public-law corporations, institutions and foundations under the supervision of federal authorities (Federal Flag Code).
	www.bund.de /nn_6024/Fremdsprachen/Struktur/EN/Protocol-Office/National-days-of-remembrance-and-public-holid/Day-of-German-Unity/Day-of-German-Unity-knoten.html__nnn=true (0 words)

	German For Travellers - Holidays / Ferien
		German statutory holidays incorporate many of the holy days of the church.
		Considering the preceding, one may wonder how the German economy manages at all, however, one should not forget that German employees generally move less often than their North American counterparts, and in general also dislike missing work.
		With roughly 84 million Germans trying to get away during the summer months, the need for staggered start and end times for holidays in a country somewhat smaller than California is obvious.
	www.germanfortravellers.com /culture/holiday/index.htm (535 words)

	The Day of German Unity - German Culture
		The Day of German Unity - German Culture
		The Day of German Unity, called the Tag der Deutschen Einheit in German, commemorates October 3, 1990 when East and West Germany became one country after over forty years of physical and ideological division.
		Although the GDR was the wealthiest of the communist bloc countries, it could not compete with the blossoming of West Germany’s economy which was supported by the Marshall Plan.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art46381.asp (548 words)

	USATODAY.com - Far-right activists march on German's day of unity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The far-right march has become a fixture on Unity Day, a public holiday that marks the reunification of East and West Germany on Oct. 3, 1990.
		Out of respect for victims of the terror attacks in the United States, organizers canceled Unity Day fireworks and scaled back festivities at the official celebration in the western city of Mainz, where Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and other dignitaries attended an interfaith Mass.
		Germans across the country marked the day with speeches, street events and reflection on the lingering gap in attitudes and prosperity between the richer west and the formerly communist east.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/10/03/german-unity.htm (538 words)

	Wikinfo \| Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The war ended in 1918, and the German emperor was forced to abdicate.
		In 1941, the Germans initiated the Holocaust, the highly organized mass murder of millions of Jews and others.
		As a result of demands made by Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, the parts of Germany east of the Oder and Western Neisse rivers, comprising Eastern Pomerania, Silesia, Danzig and East Prussia, were detached from Germany and annexed to Poland and the Soviet Union.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Germany (1522 words)

	washingtonpost.com: In Berlin Wall's Dust, Germany Flounders
		The most recent kick in the pants was Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's proposal last week to scrap German Unity Day as an official paid holiday to commemorate the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990.
		In the days after the Berlin Wall tumbled, as the two German states rushed to remove the border that had separated them for a generation, there was a surge of hope and optimism about the newly reconciled nation's potential.
		German leaders have bristled at a perceived lack of respect from their neighbors.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A35239-2004Nov8?language=printer (870 words)

	German American Day
		The German American National Congress (D.A.N.K.) and it's chapters mounted the first national campaign in 1987 urging all German Americans, their organizations and friends, to write or phone their senators and congressmen, and ask them to vote for the Joint Congressional Resolution establishing German American Day.
		German American Day honors 300+ years of German immigration to the USA, beginning with the arrival of the first 13 Mennonite immigrant families from Krefeld on October 6, 1683, who subsequently founded Germantown, Pennsylvania.
		German unification became reality in 1990, and the President especially emphasized "a new, united Germany that stands in friendship with the United States also stands as our partner in leadership" and said that Germany not only symbolizes a new Europe but is a partner with, and stands in friendship with the United States.
	www.dank.org /german_american_day.htm (983 words)

	News in a Click
		German culture shares many of the same religions, fashions, holidays, and beliefs.
		They also have days for their country’s pride such as German Unity Day on Oct. 3rd and German-Americans Appreciation Day on Oct. 6th.
		Germans wear a lot of the same fashions we do, but some girls dress a lot more maturely than we do.
	www.flvs.net /fvsnews/aug2006/germany.htm (324 words)

	German Embassy London - Day of German Unity
		Germany is celebrating the 16th anniversary of German reunification this year on 2 and 3 October with a programme of events in the Baltic port of Kiel.
		To celebrate the Day of German Unity, Brandenburg will present itself to the UK from 30 September - 3 October 2006.
		The Day of German Unity commemorates the process of reunification that was formally concluded with the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990.
	www.london.diplo.de /Vertretung/london/en/05/German_20History/Tag__der__Deutschen__Einheit/Tag__de__Deutschen__Einheit__Unterbereich.html (504 words)

	Bismarck and Unification: German History
		The German Confederation was replaced by the North German Confederation and was furnished with both a constitution and a parliament.
		With this goal in sight, the south German states eagerly joined in the war against the country that had come to be seen as Germany's traditional enemy.
		Bismarck's major war aim--the voluntary entry of the south German states into a constitutional German nation-state--occurred during the patriotic frenzy generated by stunning military victories against French forces in the fall of 1870.
	www.germanculture.com.ua /library/history/bl_bismarck_unification.htm (757 words)

	German Unity Day Celebrated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		According to a press release from the German Embassy here, which described the day as " an auspicious event for Germany and for Europe at large," the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, initiated the end of an era for Germany, Europe and the whole world.
		The process of German re-unification starting with that day, together with the dramatic changes in other countries of the former Eastern Block, the release indicated, helped to end the East-West antagonism.
		The release said that contrary to some fears, German unification did not destabilize the continent nor did it negatively affect the multilateral framework for German and European foreign policy.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2000/10/27-10-00/Germ.htm (225 words)

	CNN.com - General sacked over Nazi speech - Nov. 4, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Defense Minister Peter Struck on Tuesday dismissed a German army general for praising a speech by a conservative lawmaker accused of anti-Semitism for comparing the actions of Jews in the Russian revolution with those of the Nazis.
		Hohmann argued that Germans still labor under the burden of Nazi crimes, but other nations with bloody pasts cast themselves as "innocent lambs." He cited the French revolution and the prominent role of Jews in the 1917 communist revolution in Russia.
		The KSK special forces, an elite unit touted by German leaders for its professionalism, have seen duty recently in Afghanistan as part of Germany's contribution to the U.S.-led war on terrorism after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/11/04/germany.antisemitism.ap (438 words)

	Berlin Ditches Plans to Move Unity Day \| Current Affairs \| Deutsche Welle \| 05.11.2004
		The plan by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Finance Minister Hans Eichel to rid the country of one of its work holidays was met with loud opposition -- from within the government as well as political opponents.
		But opponents to the idea retorted that to strike the national holiday was "unpatriotic," akin to attacking the soul of the nation, referring to the overriding historical importance of the division and reunification of East and West.
		The holiday was created by the German Unity Pact of 1990, a federal law, and amending it would not require ratification by the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament which represents the states.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1386127,00.html (0 words)

	German Unity Day - InformationBlast
		Thus, October 3, 1990, the day of formal reunion was chosen instead.
		For most Germans it is no more than a day off from work.
		Before reunification, in Western Germany the "Day of German Unity" was June 17, the day in 1953 on which workers in the former East staged a failed revolt against Communism, and many were killed by the authorities with Soviet aid.
	www.informationblast.com /German_Unity_Day.html (132 words)

	Day of German Unity
		When the German Democratic Republic acceded to the Federal Republic on this day in 1990, the national humiliation and the human tragedy of forty-five years of separation came to an end.
		This Day of German Unity was preceded on the German national calendar by the "17.
		Large-scale defection of East Germans through West Berlin -- 3 million all told -- could only be stopped by sealing this escape hatch with the erection of the "Berliner Mauer" (13 August 1961).
	www.serve.com /shea/germusa/dayunity.htm (0 words)

	The Day of German Unity - German Culture
		The Day of German Unity, called the Tag der Deutschen Einheit in German, commemorates October 3, 1990 when East and West Germany became one country after over forty years of physical and ideological division.
		Although the GDR was the wealthiest of the communist bloc countries, it could not compete with the blossoming of West Germany’s economy which was supported by the Marshall Plan.
		The six by 10 meter flag is the largest official flag in Germany and has flown day and night since it was first raised.
	bodyart.bellaonline.com /articles/art46381.asp (550 words)

	Germany - Holidays
		The following two days are holidays, usually spent visiting friends and family.
		German Christmas trees are often decorated with real candles.
		This sixteen-day festival began as a wedding celebration to mark the marriage of the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig in 1810.
	www.cp-pc.ca /english/germany/holidays.html (294 words)

	The Recorder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wolfgang Vorwerk, the German Consul General, spoke in Founders Hall Wednesday, October 4 about the unification of West and East Germany and the current state of affairs in the country.
		The day is celebrated every year on October 3 commemorating the reunification of West and East Germany.
		He said that Unity Day is a sign of American friendship and without America’s friendship, Germany would never have been reunited.
	clubs.ccsu.edu /Recorder/news/print_item.asp?NewsID=92 (626 words)

	Deutsche Botschaft Kuala Lumpur - Prize Giving Ceremony of the German Unity Day Quiz 2006
		A colourful crowd of winners, accompanied by their families and friends, together with representatives of the German companies, which had graciously sponsored the prizes for this year’s contest, filled the great hall of the German Ambassador’s residence in the afternoon of 8 November 2006.
		The second prize by Deutsche Bank was a three day package tour to Bangkok and the third prize, sponsored by BMW, consisted of a driver’s training for two.
		The response to the contest, which appeared in the "German Unity Day Special Supplement" in the New Straits Times on 3rd October 2006, had increased threefold this year and saw some 2900 entries.
	www.kuala-lumpur.diplo.de /Vertretung/kualalumpur/en/Preisverleihung.html (496 words)

	Day of German Unity and German-American Day - Atlantic Review - Analysis of Transatlantic Relations and U.S. Foreign ...
		German papers regularly point out that British Prime Minister Thatcher and French President Mitterrand were not very enthusiastic at all about German unification in 1990.
		Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl and former President George Bush attended the Celebration of the Day of German Unity at the German Ambassador’s Residence in Washington, DC on October 3, 2006.
		During the historic times, it was truly a stroke of luck when the iron curtain slowly lifted that we Germans were able to rely on you, George Bush, who was president of the United States.
	atlanticreview.org /archives/435-Day-of-German-Unity-and-German-American-Day.html (1186 words)

	Davids Medienkritik: Day of German Unity - Whom to Thank
		On the occasion of the "Day of German Unity" on Oct. 3, 2005, chancellor Gerhard Schroeder credits East Germans for bringing down the Berlin wall in 1989.
		From the proud mother of a soldier who was in Iraq from day one and as the daughter of a father who was involved in the Berlin Airlift, and a host mother who has 12 German host children (most now adults) I wish we could exchange ideas and views without the hate.
		Given the information Germans have received about global politics and diplomacy as demonstrated by the WoT and Iraq, as well as the recent German election, I'd say that Germany is slipping into failure as a democracy.
	medienkritik.typepad.com /blog/2005/10/tag_der_deutsch.html (3183 words)

	Netnerd » German Unity Day
		Yesterday was the German day of Unity, a celebration of the re-unification of West/East Germany.
		Sabine and I we’re invited to the German consulates house last night for a reception to celebrate the day.
		They had all the usual German stuff like sausages, pretzels etc and of course German beer on tap which was Warsteiner (one of my favorite beers).
	netnerd.ca /index.php/2006/10/04/german-unity-day (238 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Germany dismisses a general (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Prosecutors in the central city of Fulda placed Hohmann under investigation Monday to examine whether he could face criminal charges of incitement, slander, and disparaging the dead for his comments in an Oct. 3 speech marking German Unity Day.
		He said that Germans were still being victimized for the Nazi past.
		Guenzel's letter was read by Hohmann on German television and later confirmed by the defense ministry as authentic.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2003/11/05/germany_dismisses_a_general?mode=PF (475 words)

	Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: "Day of German Unity"
		A few days thereafter, on 3 July 1953, the German parliament passes by an overwhelming majority (against the votes of the Communist KPD) the "Act Pertaining to the Day of German Unity".
		When in the autumn of 1989 the East Germans again took to the streets in open protest against the SED regime, a photographer for the West German press agency dpa captured the scene at one of the large East Berlin demonstrations; he used a Nikon F3T single lens reflex.
		What began as an attempted reform within the GDR led in a few months to peaceful reunification: in 1990, the national holiday celebrated on 17 June and marking the abortive uprising and the division of Germany, is replaced by the new "Day of German Unity" on 3 October, a symbol of reunification.
	www.hdg.de /index.php?id=1673?&L=1 (389 words)

	Germany.info : 15 Years of German Unity
		More than remembering the walls, fences and armed guards that separated East from West, this is a time to celebrate the peaceful resistance and determination with which GDR citizens overcame that separation.
		Kurt Beck, Minister President of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz, the German state with the most US troops, was the other guest of honor.
		From the East German demonstrations that preceeded the Fall of the Wall to the signing of the key treaties, unification was more than a moment in history - it was a process.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/info/publications/infocus/15yrs_Reunification (0 words)

	Tai Chi & Qigong (chi kung) DVD, Book, FREE Lessons, Teachers Directory, Natural Health - Asian Lifestyle Products Home ...
		Since World Tai Chi and QiGong Day was launched other massive events now are held annually in cities in 60 nations (See Chapter 24).
		In days of old, Tai Chi (or Tai Chi Ch’uan) was primarily a martial art.
		World Tai Chi and Qigong Day is proud to have been a source for Parade Magazine on this article, and to have supplied Parade writers with a plethora of information on medical research on Tai Chi.
	www.worldtaichiday.org (5624 words)

	Editor's Diary: Feeling unity with the Germans, News, Germany, Expatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And so I spent the day interviewing filmmaker and author Rudolph Herzog and Washington Post columnist and historian Anne Applebaum (the results of which will be on display on an Expatica web page near you soon) as well as working on another article I was supposed to be handing in the next day.
		Well, Tanja, who I had coincidentally met for coffee the day before, was probably working on her latest job application (which she's writing in English, appropriately enough in this crazy new post-reunification globalised world) and wondering when she was going to manage to get back to New Zealand to see her boyfriend.
		She too had other things on her mind, namely the fact that her employer, a formerly very cosy Mittelstand company, has become much less pleasant to work for since it was taken over by a British group, and that she is worried about losing her job as the British money men consider further cuts.
	www.expatica.com /actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=33575 (860 words)

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