The ninth of November has long been the most delicate day in the German calendar. It brings a balancing act of remembrance for the state-sanctioned murderous devastation of the Nazi pogroms across the country in 1938 and, 51 years later, the overnight collapse of the most famous barrier in the world, the Berlin Wall.
Both had international repercussions that are still felt today. The former dominates the nation’s collective memory.
