At an event marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, the city's mayor, Kai Wegner, said November 9 remains a fateful day for Germany - both in a positive and negative ...
The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world, was brought down, people streamed to climb over it, stand on top of it or rush through it, in shock and jubilation. Others came with ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - It's not often that a historic announcement comes, as an afterthought, almost by accident, at the end of an otherwise stultifying tedious press conference. But that's how the ...
The fall of the Berlin Wall surprised to the world. How did this historic moment happen? The fall of the Berlin Wall on the evening of November 9, 1989 came as a complete surprise to East and West ...
This story originally published on Nov. 10, 1989. It is being republished as part of the commemoration of USA TODAY's 40th anniversary on Sept. 15, 2022. AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they ...
The fall of the Berlin Wall on this day 20 years ago was the most spectacular moment of the end of the Cold War, but in fact only represented the midpoint in the “last sad chapter” of this bizarre ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — I can’t wait until July 10 to stand on the site of the concrete wall that once split Berlin into east and west. Doing so had long been on my bucket list, dating to my first tour of ...
Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...
Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Volker Pawlowski is not much of a philosopher. But in his Berlin warehouse filled with concrete pieces of Berlin Wall neatly stocked in banana boxes, the entrepreneur asserts that ...
Historians and locals in Berlin are furious after a 196-foot chunk of the Berlin Wall disappeared almost overnight to make way for luxury condominiums. According to the German newspaper Der ...
In their unceasing attempts to escape to freedom, East Berliners have often taken the underground route. But last week the world learned of the biggest, most elaborate tunnel yet built beneath the ...
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