BERLIN, Nov. 9, 1989 (UPI) -- The East German government Thursday dropped all restrictions on travel to the West, and thousands of citizens of the communist state flocked to the Berlin Wall, the ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, in East Germany ... Berlin Wall went around the world, along with another more sobering image: a long cavalcade of Trabants, the noisy and polluting East German car, snaking into ...

After the Berlin Wall ... Eastern Germany. But Little Red Riding Hood is a rarity … almost a fairy tale. The East may be better off than it was, but it is not as well off as the West, where ...

LAUCHHAMMER, Germany — Three decades after the fall of the Berlin ... wall on Nov. 9, 1989. Indeed, 2017 was the first year after reunification that the East had more people arriving from the ...

A quarter-century after the Berlin Wall that split East and West Germany came down, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said its destruction shows that dreams can come true and "nothing has to stay as ...

Two million East Germans poured through the open border into West Germany within 48 hours of the Berlin Wall bursting open. After a week, more than half the country’s 16 million pent-up people ...

Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 ... Berlin was located about 90 miles east from the border between the GDR and West Germany and completely surrounded ...

AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans ... Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell urged East Germany to "take the final step and tear that Wall down.'' - West German Chancellor Helmut ...

Brinkmann, a West German, was working in East ... the wall came down. At first he couldn’t believe it. Then he cried. Then he booked a flight back to Berlin. Now he’s living in Germany again.

Communist East ... of the West and to stem the tide of people fleeing Germany. It cut through the middle of the city center and surrounded West Berlin. But not even barbed wire and the Wall ...

You only have to look at a map of Germany to see ... with the famous Berlin Wall signifying the divide. Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected the Cold War ...