#einheit

Kurppa Hosk (KH) / KH Type / Einheit / Typeface / 2026

Uns kriegt man nicht auseinander.

Wir stehen ein füreinander.

It's October 3rd, 🏰 German Unity Day. On this day in 1990, leaders of the former East and West Germanies signed the Treaty of Unification, making Germany’s unification official. In Berlin, this event's celebration has expanded to a three-day festival around the Brandenburg Gate and at the Reichstag around Platz der Republik.

After the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviet Union occupied eastern Germany, and the Western Allies occupied the western half. A divided Germany, and especially a divided Berlin, came to be looked upon as one of the most enduring and ominous symbols of the Cold War.

Berlin was the location of some of the Cold War's most dramatic episodes. The Soviets blocked all ground travel into West Berlin during the Berlin Blockade from June 1948 to May 1949 and constructed the Berlin Wall in 1961. As the Soviet Union's power gradually waned in the late ‘80s, the Communist Party in East Germany began to lose its grip on power. Tens of thousands of East Germans began to flee the nation.