Everything comes back. Even the memories. When did the post-war order come to an end? When the wall fell? The young couple who spent their wedding night in front of the television will remember that November 9, 1989, for a long time. They experienced German history that night. By chance. Because they actually just wanted to get married as quickly as possible. And the next available appointment at the registry office was on November 9. For the groom's father, November 9 is associated with the anniversary of Kristallnacht. "Pah, history," says the younger generation. The day John F. Kennedy was shot, when the RAF kidnapped an industrialist in Vienna, when the Berlin Wall fell, when Greece became European football champion: that is history. It intersects with our stories of weddings and deaths, of failures and new beginnings. Everyone was somewhere when something happened.