“The first wall to fall was pushed over in 1980 in the Polish shipyards. Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the ...

November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...

Today, the two Germanys have been reunited into one Federal Republic, following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Former East Berlin has received a huge cash injection. Now trees line the ...

The highlight of our 1989 trip was a special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing down of the wall at Checkpoint Charlie and other places. While there, we celebrated New ...

When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic ... for free elections with respect for human rights. Before the fall of Honecker's government in October, human rights violations ...

Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most momentous geopolitical events of the 20th century. Germany was ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... On 1 May 1960, just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris ...

The next day, he joined the enormous queue of East-Germans wanting to explore the other side of the now defunct wall. Stephan Stiess from Newcastle in Australia was 19 years old when the Berlin ...

Located in the center of Berlin ... Wall, as well as explore a handful of exhibits. Visitors will learn about the political and historical context that led to the wall’s construction, its fall ...