What is that marching around Berlin?

[JerseyJanice]

CNN just showed video of a giant scuba-costumed marionette walking around as part of a celebration for the reunification of Germany 20 years ago.

(I can't believe it's been 20 years already, but that's a whole other discussion!)

So what does a giant scuba diver have to do with the Wall coming down? It's an old-looking scuba outfit too. It looks like the diving suits they wore in the 1950's version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

 

[AshleyW]

CNN just showed video of a giant scuba-costumed marionette walking around as part of a celebration for the reunification of Germany 20 years ago.

(I can't believe it's been 20 years already, but that's a whole other discussion!)

So what does a giant scuba diver have to do with the Wall coming down? It's an old-looking scuba outfit too. It looks like the diving suits they wore in the 1950's version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

Here's an article I found:

Gigantic puppets starred at celebrations marking the 19th anniversary of German unification in Berlin on Saturday as tens of thousands watched the mechanical marionettes on their walk through the city.

At the capital's landmark Brandenburg Gate, for 45 years the border between communist east and capitalist west, a five-metre (16-foot) little girl giant from the east reunited with a 15-metre giant "relative" from the west as on-lookers cheered.

The two puppets - part of a show designed by artists and technicians of French troupe Royal de Luxe - hugged and kissed after a walkabout of several kilometres through the once divided city.

On Sunday they are to symbolically return tens of thousands of letters once intercepted by former East Germany's Stasi secret police to people watching their procession through the city.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany's first head of government to grow up in East Germany, on Saturday hailed East Germans' determination to bring down the communist regime 20 years ago which led to German unification a year later.

The €1.6-million Royal de Luxe show is part of a host of celebrations in the runup to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9.

They will peak with a party on both sides of the Brandenburg Gate on November 9 to which the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as well as political leaders from the 27-nation European Union and other countries have been invited.

 

[clarabelle]

Is David Hasselhof there? In his leather light up clothing