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Gallery: Berlin Wall Fall 25th Anniversary
The installation 'Lichtgrenze' (Border of Light) along a former Berlin Wall location is illuminated next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
People pass by a light installation of balloons tethered to lamps illuminating the course of the Berlin Wall
Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union (C), places his hands in wet cement attached to a section of the former Berlin Wall.
An impression of the hand of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is seen in cement.
Millions of people are expected to party on the streets of Berlin this weekend for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall.
Tourists from around the world are arriving in the city for a weekend of celebrations, including concerts, debates, firework displays and exhibitions.
The weekend includes a "citizen's festival" with two million people expected to attend at the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol of German unity.
Among the entertainment will be the Berlin State Orchestra, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and East German rock band Silly.
British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel will perform the Wall anthem "Heroes", which David Bowie recorded when he lived in West Berlin.
On Saturday, dignitaries will take part in several events to mark the fall of the wall on 9 November, 1989.
German chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to attend an evening memorial concert at Bertolt Brecht's historic Berliner Ensemble theatre.
The theatre stands opposite the former 'Palace of Tears', where Easterners said goodbye to visitors returning to West Germany.
Meanwhile, former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev is expected to join former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher for a special debate.
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Gallery: 25 Years Since The Berlin Wall Fell
West Berlin policemen and East German Volkspolizei face each other across the border in Berlin, circa 1955
1961: Soldiers build the Berlin Wall, as instructed by the East German authorities, in order to strengthen the existing barriers dividing East and West Berlin
Border guards on opposite sides of the wall, viewed from the western side
They will discuss the legacy of unification, as well as renewed tensions between Russia and the West.
On Friday night, Mr Gorbachev spoke out about the renewed tensions at Berlin's former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, an iconic Cold War site.
Referring to the crisis in Ukraine, the 83-year-old said: "We now have to watch out that we don't miss the right moment, that we get a grip on the tensions that have emerged recently."
It was Mr Gorbachev's reforms, including a loosening of Soviet control over its former communist satellites, that led to events that brought the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
His policies of glasnost and perestroika (openness and restructuring), earned him admiration in the West and the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr Gorbachev, greeted with cheers at the Berlin event, was asked to place his hands into a wet plaster cast bolted onto an original piece of the Wall.
Earlier, Berlin's Mayor Klaus Wowereit illuminated a chain of balloons, placed on 8,000 lampposts along the route of the former wall.
The balloons will be released on Sunday, together with messages from the public describing memories of the wall.
The Lichtgrenze - or light border - traces the former wall as accurately as possible past landmarks such as Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag and Checkpoint Charlie.
In a speech to Berliners and tourists, Mr Wowereit said the light installation offered "the possibility to tear down the wall for a second time."
"This time people from around the world will send off messages, which are fixed to the balloons, messages for peace and hope that all the walls in the world will fall, concrete walls and the walls in peoples heads," he said.
A museum dedicated to the Berlin Wall, which closed in October 2013, will reopen on Sunday to coincide with the anniversary.
The new Documentation Centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial shows 500 exhibits, photographs and videos illustrating Germany's separation from 1961 until 1989.
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Gallery: Berlin Wall Fall 25th Anniversary
The installation 'Lichtgrenze' (Border of Light) along a former Berlin Wall location is illuminated next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
People pass by a light installation of balloons tethered to lamps illuminating the course of the Berlin Wall
Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union (C), places his hands in wet cement attached to a section of the former Berlin Wall.
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An impression of the hand of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is seen in cement.
Millions of people are expected to party on the streets of Berlin this weekend for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall.
Tourists from around the world are arriving in the city for a weekend of celebrations, including concerts, debates, firework displays and exhibitions.
The weekend includes a "citizen's festival" with two million people expected to attend at the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol of German unity.
Among the entertainment will be the Berlin State Orchestra, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and East German rock band Silly.
British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel will perform the Wall anthem "Heroes", which David Bowie recorded when he lived in West Berlin.
On Saturday, dignitaries will take part in several events to mark the fall of the wall on 9 November, 1989.
German chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to attend an evening memorial concert at Bertolt Brecht's historic Berliner Ensemble theatre.
The theatre stands opposite the former 'Palace of Tears', where Easterners said goodbye to visitors returning to West Germany.
Meanwhile, former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev is expected to join former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher for a special debate.
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Gallery: 25 Years Since The Berlin Wall Fell
West Berlin policemen and East German Volkspolizei face each other across the border in Berlin, circa 1955
1961: Soldiers build the Berlin Wall, as instructed by the East German authorities, in order to strengthen the existing barriers dividing East and West Berlin
Border guards on opposite sides of the wall, viewed from the western side
They will discuss the legacy of unification, as well as renewed tensions between Russia and the West.
On Friday night, Mr Gorbachev spoke out about the renewed tensions at Berlin's former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, an iconic Cold War site.
Referring to the crisis in Ukraine, the 83-year-old said: "We now have to watch out that we don't miss the right moment, that we get a grip on the tensions that have emerged recently."
It was Mr Gorbachev's reforms, including a loosening of Soviet control over its former communist satellites, that led to events that brought the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
His policies of glasnost and perestroika (openness and restructuring), earned him admiration in the West and the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr Gorbachev, greeted with cheers at the Berlin event, was asked to place his hands into a wet plaster cast bolted onto an original piece of the Wall.
Earlier, Berlin's Mayor Klaus Wowereit illuminated a chain of balloons, placed on 8,000 lampposts along the route of the former wall.
The balloons will be released on Sunday, together with messages from the public describing memories of the wall.
The Lichtgrenze - or light border - traces the former wall as accurately as possible past landmarks such as Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag and Checkpoint Charlie.
In a speech to Berliners and tourists, Mr Wowereit said the light installation offered "the possibility to tear down the wall for a second time."
"This time people from around the world will send off messages, which are fixed to the balloons, messages for peace and hope that all the walls in the world will fall, concrete walls and the walls in peoples heads," he said.
A museum dedicated to the Berlin Wall, which closed in October 2013, will reopen on Sunday to coincide with the anniversary.
The new Documentation Centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial shows 500 exhibits, photographs and videos illustrating Germany's separation from 1961 until 1989.
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