Photos: 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall

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Photos: 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall

A tourist from Greece looks through the hole in remains of the Berlin Wall on the 30th anniversary of the wall's fall.

Flowers were placed in parts of the Berlin Wall that remained standing, 30 years after the infamous wall fell.

People gathered at the remains of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, with some placing flowers in the old structure.

From right, presidents Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, Janos Ader of Hungary, Andrzej Duda of Poland, Zuzana Caputova of Slovakia and Milos Zeman of the Czech Republic, from right, put flowers in a crack inside the Berlin Wall

Flowers were left in front of portraits of people who died at the Berlin Wall.

People walk along the former border of West Germany and East Germany on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

An man with a Soviet flag walks in front of remains of the Berlin Wall on Saturday.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel places a candle at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Saturday.

Fans tear down a symbolic wall on the day of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall before the Bundesliga soccer match between Hertha BSC Berlin and RB Leipzig on Saturday.

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A tourist from Greece looks through the hole in remains of the Berlin Wall on the 30th anniversary of the wall's fall.

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