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Article: Uprooted by WW2 and German division, US Embassy returns to historic Berlin address
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- July 4, 2008
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Fourth of July fireworks over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate are to mark the official homecoming of the U.S. Embassy in Germany to its pre-World War II address on Friday.
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were expected to kick off a two-day celebration that highlights the unique relationship between the U.S. and Germany _ and the long road to bringing the embassy back to the heart of Berlin.
The site on Berlin's Pariser Platz has a turbulent history.
By the time U.S. diplomats moved into the embassy in April 1939, Washington had already recalled its chief envoy to protest the Nazis' anti-Semitic pogrom the previous year.