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<I>The May Day rally in West Berlin</I>

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<I>became</I> <I>an impressive </I><br/><I>freedom demonstration.</I>

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<I>Before a crowd of 500,000,</I> <br/> <I>the Governing Mayor Willy Brandt said:</I>

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My dear Berliners.

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I greet you warmly,

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you who came here
on this May day

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out of your own free will,

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out of self-chosen discipline,

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and not by any command,

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unlike what resounds
back to us from the other side

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of the Brandenburg Gate.

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The day will come

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when the Brandenburg Gate
is no longer on the border.

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On the borderline
that cuts through our families,

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that tears the nation apart,

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that divides our Berlin.

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Until that day comes,

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we ask,

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we cry,

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and we demand:

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"Open the Gate!"

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"Put an end to this unnatural divide!"

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<I>On the other side</I>        <br/>        <I>of the Brandenburg Gate, however,</I>

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<I>1 May 1959 was all about</I>

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<I>the so-called People's Army.</I>

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<I>Images that need no comment.</I>

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FOR PEACE, HAPPINESS 
AND PROSPERITY!

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Copyright © 2012 TITELBILD, Berlin
Subtitles: L. Corper et al.