The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" id="mwzw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="East Germany">German Democratic Republic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="German reunification">is abolished</a> and becomes part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" id="mw0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Germany">Federal Republic of Germany</a>; the event is afterwards celebrated as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Unity_Day" id="mw0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="German Unity Day">German Unity Day</a>.<sup about="#mwt35" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_3#cite_note-5" id="mw0w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw1A">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt32" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFJoseph_S._Gordon">Joseph S. Gordon. "German Reunification and the Bundeswehr". <i id="mwBss">Military Review</i>. Command and General Staff School: 21.</cite><span about="#mwt32" class="Z3988" id="mwBsw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Military+Review&amp;rft.atitle=German+Reunification+and+the+Bundeswehr&amp;rft.pages=21&amp;rft.au=Joseph+S.+Gordon&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+3"></span></span>