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German Unity Day
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national day of Germany on 3 October
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Key facts
- Official name
- German : Tag der Deutschen Einheit
- Observed by
- Germany
- Significance
- Commemorates the German reunification in 1990
- Date
- 3 October
- Frequency
- Annual
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- national day
- Named after
- German reunification
- Country
- Germany
- Image
- 3-Oktober.jpg
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- Commons category
- German Unity Day
- day in year for periodic occurrence
- October 3
- Commons gallery
- German Unity Day
- commemorates
- German reunification
- hashtag
- TagderDeutschenEinheit
- native label
- Tag der Deutschen Einheit
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Encyclopedic overview
German Unity Day (German: Tag der Deutschen Einheit, pronounced [ˈtaːk deːɐ̯ ˈdɔʏtʃn̩ ˈʔaɪnhaɪt] ) is the National Day of Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates German reunification in 1990 when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ceased to exist and joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), so that for the first time since 1945 there existed a single German state. German Unity Day on 3 October has been the German national holiday since 1990, when the reunification was formally completed.
An alternative choice to commemorate the reunification could have been the day the Berlin Wall came down: 9 November 1989, which coincided with the anniversary of the proclamation of the German Republic in 1918, and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923. However, 9 November was also the anniversary of the first large-scale Nazi-led pogroms against Jews in 1938 (Reichspogromnacht), so the day was considered inappropriate as a national holiday (see 9 November in German history). Therefore, 3 October 1990, the day of the formal reunification, was chosen instead. It replaced the "German Unity Day" on 17 June, the national holiday of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1954.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “German Unity Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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