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Members of the GDR's People's Chamber ratify the Unification Treaty in East Berlin, GDR, 20 September 1990. A total of 299 member voted in favour, 80 against, one abstention, of the treaty that sealed the GDR's aaccession to the Federal Republic. Federal German Bundestag ratified the treaty the same day as expected with a two-thirds majority. (KEYSTONE/DPA/Wolfgang Kumm)