Germans subdued as they remember wall's fall

Germany marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today, weighed down by high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense that in people’s hearts the nation has not yet fully reunited.

No big celebrations, parades or fireworks recalled November 9, 1989, the day East Germany’s communist regime opened the wall almost by accident and set off national euphoria that peaked with German reunification 11 months later.