9 November marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an extraordinary event which unified Germany following more than 40 years of division. Walls have been a symbol of both division and unification. They can... [read full story]
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If you’ve had any contact with the news media over the past few days, you’ve probably heard the brouhaha over the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall . And as is well known by anyone who has tracked other recent...
Twenty years ago, on the night of November 9, 1989, following weeks of pro-democracy protests, East German authorities suddenly opened their border to West Germany. After 28 years as prisoners of their own country, euphoric...
By Ben Hall in Paris and Bertrand Benoit in Berlin Relations between Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel were strained last year by German reaction to the global financial crisis Angela Merkel will make history on Wednesday when...
Monday marked the 20th anniversary of Berliners freely being allowed to cross the Wall, built in 1961 to divide their city. When I was in Berlin, someone showed me a map produced in the old East Germany at the time when the...
I was in the 8th grade in November of 1988, and I don’t think that the fall of the Berlin Wall had any immediate impact on my thinking at the time. I don’t remember if I watched the coverage on TV, or if there were any big...
Listen to this segment | the entire program Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, symbolizing the end of Communist power in 1989 and the beginning of a reunification of Germany. The wall was a...
Many believed. So many were disappointed. 9 minute video, halfway down the page. Excellent encapsulation of life in East Berlin from the '50s to the fall of the Berlin Wall, including indoctrination of children, MEDIOCRE...
Germany's political and church leaders have marked the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on 9 November with an ecumenical service at the Protestant church in eastern Berlin that played a key role in the events.
Photos: Remembering the Berlin Wall 20 Years Later Posted on November 10, 2009 by pacificEyeWitness.org In the early 1900s until 1914, or thereabouts, Samoa , formerly known as Western Samoa, was once ruled by Germany. BERLIN –...
The Gainesville Sun on Nov. 8 published “When the wall came down,” a guest column by Photojournalism professor John Freeman , “The fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, was emotional and personal for me. I had lived in the...
