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Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall Fell, the Battle for German Unity Still Rages
The world saw German reunification as a historic success—but for the people of the East, it was a different story. Now populism is surging.
Diana Lehmann was six when the Wall came down.
A month or so later, she remembers, her parents drove the family to Bavaria in their East German-built Trabant to try out this strange new freedom they’d been handed.