A fantastic lot has changed the instant germany has begun to catch up finally i think in some very significant ways the the 990 s. Right through into the decade that followed on that right through to 2005 also there were intensely painful years people lost their jobs they lost their livelihoods we talked about this already. I think know what has happened is that in terms of infrastructure much has been achieved in eastern germany but far too many people have had traumatic experiences their lives have been traumatic and that hasnt been realized in the full extent until now and i think the time has finally come of this a certain urgency about some of the statements that are being made around events in kill today and this this week ahead of the unity celebrations a lot of politicians be coming out and saying finally the time has come we must look each other in the eye we must visit each other we must talk to each other and the zones i hope just platitudes because it really does have to happen. Germany has become a little bit of a divided society east west and especially the rise more in the east and in the west been the west too of the far rights or also as a for germany the populist right her alternative for Germany Party has left many people concerned about the future for germany you see i its of travel to eastern germany shortly after german unification and thats so that there were huge kind of you know expectations and i think what you can see there with doesnt do this is a visit before we go any further lets actually go live to kiev where this official ceremony is to mark and jim reunification are taking place and this is soaking the atmosphere because we will be looking forward to hearing what chairman and lamech u. S. L. Grew up in eastern germany has to stay later but lets listen to south i mean is it coming right there now from the ceremonies official ceremonies in kiev. I. Think. It. Was. I think i. Want to thank chance coming to you from ceremonies officially marking the day of german reunification theyre coming to you from the northern german city of kenya. You just heard music and a sand sculpture marking in chilling unification. The german chances are to make a note of the dress thats mr president the fondest talk of. The Constitutional Court and ladies and gentlemen premiers your colleagues from the men cabinet from the. Mayor people who are citizens too much money thomas manners look as i turned from loose back described to the germans and made tonight 245 just a few weeks after the end of the patrol of civilization that was the show and the 2nd world war and his famous speech was germany and the germans. I quote. This. Concerting a level of lack of freedom a fart and a lack of maturity and dull subservience and of quote plunder if you go annoyed he said that germany never had had a revolution and this was the reason i wanted to watch my unfortunately thomas mann wasnt able to experience that years after his depressing and ignorant of thoughts of what germans were like i wasnt deemed a german literature revolution one of thats a peaceful revolution to boot a revolution in the spirit of freedom i think you thought it would be really decades after the revolution what today we remember the 3rd of october 1919 just you know 1st off id love german unity in our country and once again join together at the borders of the conclusion of a development that began with the civil uprising misery not only written in the eastern with a log and in the mud which really took sailing away most coming from our skies peaceful resolutions like him about. 19 months later 9 would like some just feel bigger than this one thought the rules had changed. And the state based on subservience was brought to its knees and this is why at this point i want to commemorate the victims at the best media regime in east germany those who lost their lives trying to flee and those who are disadvantaged persecuted me for getting arrested to talk to detainees we must not forget them not least on a day of celebration like this one thank you maps for that i think you all known for some the 30 years ago in autumn thousands of people came. Re in churches peacefully calling for freedom of opinion i really got the press reading your speech and democracy others risked their lives and fled to were not told by hungary to toss them to the Czech Republic 1000 mice demonstrated on the streets democracy and peace and they brought the law down 1. 00 to 45. 00 the revolution could be successful because they were courageous to one fault and that. The power away from. Power and east germany in small towns and big cities they forced those in power into a dialogue that they couldnt avoid. Peaceful collapse and the regime succeeded because so many peaceful men and women workers intellectuals much money that the male laying off for and. Insisted on taking their role as mature and civic citizens they didnt want to go along with what thomas mann had described and with at the same time this period was the beginning of change and attempts to bring in together east and west generally. Angela 29 years since this process immensely gam in much has been achieved. In eastern and in western germanys people i know how can you then they had going to surprise but we know that this isnt the entire truth the sublime no not front because the 29 years of german reunification also means being aware of the fact that many eastern germans have said they feel like 2nd class and music in the federal court and going to church and give us an equal 40 percent of eastern germans feel that unification on the past succeeded. Only 20 percent think is it succeeded among young people less than half are happy with us but democracy. And that means that apart from what we have achieved all of us policy makers and as members of society need to understand that and why german unification for many people in eastern germany is not just something theyve experienced as a positive for all of us this policymakers and i decided to understand that just by improving the Economic Situation we dont necessarily have the same understanding of democracy that we need to have we have to understand what it means for the individual citizen my the burden of division being followed by the intensity of unification ladies and gentlemen in kiel we have celebrated the day of german unity once before in 2006 when i spoke to you then i talked about how i experienced a day of german unity 1994. And perhaps i could refer back to the region for a moment of the weather and grow then 29 years ago was glorious to me off i set out to celebrate in the filler monic everyone was in my mood a celebration which i had a mixture suddenly of joy with concern. Because i had suddenly discovered that overnight thief forks police from east germany had suddenly received west German Police uniforms. Of the Police Officers the border guard suddenly got new uniforms but overnight to achieve a new mindset youre feeling. So much for german unity began for me with a sense of Culture Shock we thought about everything but had we really thought through that the individual and i dont just mean officers and other order guy and but all of a. Who lived in germany had we thought about the fact that the individual wouldnt simply be able to hang their thoughts and feelings and experiences on a peg and that they might not know what was on the flight for me and many others the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 and german unity in 1991 moments of joy optimism openness in the broader sense of the moment did you know you often had of what others were afraid of this night i had a sense that east germany was like that really being a framework for them didnt you course that one that was tight but that gave them a sense of being held and somebody losing all of this was something they experienced as a loss one that was linked to skepticism of its many became unemployed and. Therefore could not unfold themselves as they would have liked before for others again who were happy about this chance of openness this openness was ling it was without having to leave their homes and go to western German Federal states. Many from western germany came to eastern germany to support us for them to this was a courageous mention in the majority of people in eastern germany however all of the turbulence gave them a sense. That they were in a few months they were looking at this element. Or the westerners who were coming were looking at this. As at a time as rather than experiencing it 1st time we had remained contact them in contact with our family members and gone and visited them and given them parcels and stayed in touch but all the same so 30 years later where are we now for the german unification on an official level has been concluded. But a sense of unity among both german certainly in 1900 has not been completed and i would say that it is still not concluded as a process so german unity is not a state that is. Agreed on and concluded and it is a process that continuous it is a. Mandate one that all of us as germans have no matter where we live in the country i know that at least unless anything it is mission doll in place of the unity of journalists is not about bringing together everything is working for those objects and agreeing on everything in fact we should be glad in what we have that level lies to everybody because its important to ensure that. 83000000 people retain their own individual fate and get a chance to strengthen their i know a lot so on the one hand day of germanys unity gives us an opportunity to look back at the courage of eastern germans people but also the foresight of statesman like i think it would call and im still to again show. Ive the mother had slipped at harcourt on the other hand today is the day to agree on how far we want to deal with together with our individual experiences im to shape the future lives about the cohesion among everyone living in this country to peace with evolution it was generally ladies and gentlemen we all go into a place because it is just a stones in there sitting so hordes of who did not really feel at home lawyer up and in 1809 they expressed this and finally had the opportunity to do so this is going on to some date a lack of freedom took the opportunity of its citizens for a very long time to make decisions about their lives on their own inside and some of. Them atop the other and the little band this meant that its citizens and saddam