Flagging Days
the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia October 3: German Unity Day Since 1990, German Unity Day has been celebrated on October 3 to commemorate the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic [...] Republic of Germany on Aug. 4, 1953, as German Unity Day. Since 1990, this holiday has fallen on October 3, to commemorate the accession of the five new states to the Federal Republic of Germany. Source: Ministry [...] states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. October 3 was designated as the "Day of German Unity" in Article 2 (2) of the Unification Treaty. Until 1990, …