Germany celebrated the anniversary of its reunification with festivals, concerts and parades across the country. In the capital, tens of thousands of people watched a massive-scale street performance featuring a pair of giant marionettes suspended by cranes marching slowly through downtown. The spectacle, performed by France's Royale de Luxe theatre company, culminated with the two finding each other at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, reuniting on the former dividing line between East and West Berlin. Germany was separated into Soviet-aligned East Germany and NATO-allied West Germany for more than four decades until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and official reunification in 1990.