Gallery: thousands mark Berlin Wall’s fall

People wearing Travel For Peace (Aktive Fredsreiser) jackets place roses at the Berlin Wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse, during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin. Picture: Fabrizio Bensch

People wearing Travel For Peace (Aktive Fredsreiser) jackets place roses at the Berlin Wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse, during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin. Picture: Fabrizio Bensch

A young girl places a rose at the Berlin Wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse, during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin. Picture: Fabrizio Bensch

A long exposure of a ship passing the alloon poles installed along Spree river in�Berlin, German. Picture: PAUL ZINKEN

An aerial view on the line comprised of hundreds of illuminated balloons tracing the course of the former Berlin�Wall past the main train station (R) in Berlin. Picture: RAINER JENSEN

epa04481639 remains of the Berlin Wall at Topography of Terror Documentation Center between Martin Gropius Building (back L) and the Berlin state parliament (back R) in�Berlin. Picture: BERND VON JUTRCZENKA

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) is accompanied by Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit (2-R) as they place flowers in a joint of concrete segments of a remaining part of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial Bernauer Strasse during an official ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Picture: KAY NIETFELD

Lit candles to commemorate the victims who tried to escape across the former East German border are seen after the a church service during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at a memorial in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. Picture: Michael Dalder

People place roses at the Berlin Wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse, during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin. Picture: Fabrizio Bensch

Flowers are placed in a joint of concrete segments of a remaining part of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial Bernauer Strasse during an official ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Picture: KAY NIETFELD

Visitors walk past the balloon poles installed along the East Side Gallery in�Berlin. Picture: MAJA HITIJ

People walk under the lit balloons installation along the river Spree in Berlin. Picture: Fabrizio Bensch

People walk under stands with lit balloons placed along the former Berlin Wall location at East Side Gallery, in Berlin. Picture: Hannibal Hanschke

Balloons are placed along the former Berlin Wall location at East Side Gallery, in Berlin. Picture: Hannibal Hanschke

The word "escape" is seen in front of metal rods that delineate the line along which the Berlin Wall used to run at the Berlin Wall memorial site in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. Picture: Michael Dalder