German Unity Day

Culture of origin: National · National holiday

Holiday sources: Germany (nationwide)

German Unity Day is Germany's national holiday, marking the day in 1990 when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) joined the Federal Republic, so that there was a single German state for the first time since 1945. The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was passed over because 9 November is also the anniversary of the Nazi pogroms against Jews in 1938. Each year a ceremony and a citizens' festival are held in a city of the state that presides over the Bundesrat.