then a moment of solemn thoughts for the victims of a divided germany. d.w. has been covering today s demonstration events in the german capital and our political correspondent thomas sparrow is standing by at the berlin wall memorial thomas it s kind of a gray and rainy day in berlin you ve been watching the commemoration of events taking place what have you seen today. we re standing here mary i m not in one of the main memorials for the burning waldo memorial at the back and i watched the center of the german capital and this is one of the see the most important memorials i ve just said on this is such the place where the big political commemoration took place earlier this morning with the participation not only of german chancellor angela merkel and german president punk rocker steinmeier but