The Prime Minister has travelled to Berlin to attend events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He was joined by many other heads of state and government, including the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, and Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State.
Over 1,000 giant dominoes, erected along a section of the strip that once divided East and West Germany, were toppled to symbolise the fall of communist powers across Eastern Europe in 1989.
Gordon Brown, who was accompanied by his wife Sarah, paid tribute to the spirit of the ordinary people whose actions brought down the wall.
“This wall was torn down not by leaders, not from on high, not by military might; this wall was torn down by the greatest force of all, the unbreakable spirit of the men and women of Berlin.”
Speeches and Transcripts: Speech commemorating fall of Berlin Wall