Fifty years ago today the Berlin Wall was hastily constructed dividing East Germany from West Germany as Cold War tensions rose. Sanctioned by the communist leader of East Germany, Walter Ulbricht, ...
As Germany marks the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall this year, key witnesses are highlighting the crucial role played by St. John Paul II in bringing about the peaceful revolution that ...
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 ...
From the end of the monarchy to the 1938 pogroms to the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9 is a significant date on the German calendar.The date on which the monarchy fell in 1918, Adolf Hitler ...
Berlin, the once-divided city that epitomized the Cold War, commemorated the fall of the wall 36 years ago on Sunday with a ...
Tens of thousands celebrate fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago with concerts and art installations
BERLIN — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events commemorating ...
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, ...
To mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, the Hotel de Rome, a Rocco Forte hotel in Berlin, will be hosting an extraordinary photo exhibition. Starting on ...
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