The Berlin Wall had fallen in 1989 and during its 28 years had divided the City. Some 5,000 people managed to cross the wall into the West although around 171 were killed attempting to do so. With the demise of the communist (East) German Democratic Republic, Germany was reunified into a single nation on 3 October 1990 with Berlin becoming the capital of the enlarged Federal Republic of Germany.
'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)
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