The German Democratic Republic opened its border to West Berlin and to the Federal Republic in November 1989; after 28 years, the wall fell. Residents from both parts of the city on the wall near the ...

GERMANY today marks the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall going up with solemn ceremonies across the city and the opening of an expanded memorial for its victims. The sudden move by communist East ...

Cynicism feels like realism, but it’s actually a form of blindness. It prevents you from seeing the change agents working in ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best cultural, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed Thursday. Ten percent of people ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Exactly 53 years after East Germany's Communist authorities started to build the Berlin Wall, half of all Germans do not know the exact date when the city was divided, said a survey ...

Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the vitally historic erection of the Berlin Wall. According to a survey, only 50 percent of Germans are aware of the date. When asked what happened on this date, ...

Las Vegas will host a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Oc. 3 and 4. The Honorary Consul of Germany is sponsoring the event, which involves art, history, education and ...

As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits ...

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