no official holiday
on November 9th
the day when
20 years ago
crowds breached
the Berlin Wall
November 9th is
the date
on which Kaiser
Wilhelm abdicated
(1918)
on which Hitler
attempted
to overthrow
the Republic
(1923)
when Nazi gangs
attacked Jews and
their property
(1938)
foreshadowing
the genocide
to come
Found in the 16 November issue of the New Yorker
George Packer writing in Talk of the Town
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