I was 23 when I moved to Germany for the first time. From my university studies, I was already reasonably conversational in the language, but it wasn’t until I lived in Berlin that I started to get a handle on German history and culture. Berlin, as it turns out, is exactly the right place for a foreigner to discover that there’s one date that sticks out remarkably in Germany’s last two centuries, to the extent that it’s been called the Germans’ “day of destiny”: the ninth of November.
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Ben Graber serves as a missionary with Mission to the World in Germany.
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