Georgetown College Students to Commemorate 20th Anniversay of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
May 1, 2009
The Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, signaling the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new era in transatlantic relations and European unity.
Twenty years later, in the fall of 2009, students at more than 25 US universities, including Georgetown, will celebrate the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by organizing Campus Weeks with financial and organizational support from the German Embassy in Washington DC.
German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth announced today the colleges and universities that were selected to partner with the Embassy and Germany's Consulates General across the country in Washington DC on April 28, 2008.
The Campus Weeks are a component of Germany's Freedom Without Walls campaign, an effort to reach out to the generation that was born around the time the wall came down.
Ambassador Scharioth explained that reaching today's university students is critical if the memory and the inspiration of the fall of the wall is to be preserved. "Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the vestiges of the wall remind us that freedom is precious," he said. "We are proud to support a new generation of future leaders in their effort to discover and to share what the fall of the wall means to them," he continued.
The Freedom Without Walls Campus Weeks will include public speaking competitions and an art competition involving replicas of the Berlin Wall to be located across the country.
For more information about the program, please click on www.Germany.info/withoutwalls
