Nov 9, 2014

Millions were expected in Berlin this weekend for 25th anniversary events marking the Nov. 9, 1989, fall of the Berlin Wall. Commemorations include the 9-mile art installation “Lichtgrenze,” whose 6,800 glowing balloons trace part of the path of the heavily guarded fence that split the city into capitalist West and communist East.

: People walk under stands with balloons along Spree river in Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin on Saturday. (Hannibal Hanschke/REUTERS)

: A visitor stands Saturday near a still-standing portion of the original Berlin Wall behind a photograph showing jubilent East Germans crossing into West Berlin at Bornholmer Strasse. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

: Balloons are installed along the former Berlin Wall in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin on Saturday. (Fabrizio Bensch/REUTERS)

: Flowers left by visitors lie poked into slats of the former Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse on the day before the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall on Saturday. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

: Lilli, 8, looks out into the former “death strip” between layers of the former Berlin Wall next to a former East German guard tower at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse on the day before the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall on Saturday. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

: The light installation Lichtgrenze (light border) is seen at the former Berlin wall Bernauer street memorial in Berlin on Saturday. Germany kicked off celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the epochal fall of the Berlin Wall Friday, set to culminate in rock stars and freedom icons joining millions at an open-air party. (TOBIAS SCHWARZTOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man passes by the “light border” (Lichtgrenze) light installation along remains of the Berlin wall at East Side Gallery in Berlin on Saturday. (ODD ANDERSENODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

: A balloon is silhouetted at sunset near the Spree river in Berlin on Saturday. (Hannibal Hanschke/REUTERS)

: People walk under stands with balloons placed along the former Berlin Wall location at East Side Gallery, in Berlin on Saturday. (Hannibal Hanschke/ REUTERS)

: An elderly woman takes a picture of lit balloons at the former Berlin Wall location near Friedrichstrasse in Berlin on Saturday. (Michael Dalder/REUTERS)

: People walk under stands with balloons along Spree river in Berlin on Saturday. (Hannibal Hanschke/REUTERS)

: People walk under stands with lit balloons placed along the former Berlin Wall location at East Side Gallery, in Berlin on Saturday. (Hannibal Hanschke/REUTERS)

: Two visitors photograph themselves Friday at a mural by Russian painter Dmitri Vrubel showing former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing former East German communist leader Erich Honecker. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

: Visitors watch an outdoor screening of a short film about the Berlin Wall in front of part of the former Wall itself and a section of the light installation “Lichtgrenze,” or light border, on Friday. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)

: Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visits the former Berlin Wall border crossing point Checkpoint Charlie, in Berlin on Friday. (Hannibal Hanschke/ REUTERS)

: A night view of Berlin taken on Friday, the kick off of celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (ODD ANDERSENODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

: Visitors watch an outdoor screening of a short film about the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate and a section of the light installation ‘Lichtgrenze,’ or light border, on Friday. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)

: People walk past the light installation Lichtgrenze (Light border) on the course of the former Berlin wall in Berlin on Friday. (JOHN MACDOUGALLJOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

: General view of the installation “Lichtgrenze” (Border of Light) on a foot bridge along a former Berlin Wall location near Bornholmer Strasse in Berlin on Friday. (Pawel Kopczynski/REUTERS)

Glowing balloons backdrop commemorations of Berlin Wall’s fall

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