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German Plans for a Unity Monument Taking Shape

The German government has announced that in honor of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, next November it will release the results of an architecture competition to design a memorial commemorating German unification.

Speaking with AP news agency, Minister of Culture Bernd Neumann said that construction on the memorial will start in 2010 and should be complete by 2012. Berlin has set aside 15 million euros ($21 million) for the project.

The architects should pay special attention to their entries, said Neumann, because the memorial shouldn't just remind people of the Wall and reunification, but rather all “positive occurrences in German history, starting with the freedom movements in the 19th century.”..

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