Berlin Wall News
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A leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said the opposition Social Democrats, who are slumping in the polls, may break their word and team up with the former East German communists in a bid to regain power.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she “never concealed anything” about her Communist affiliations in former East Germany as a book suggested she hadn’t been forthright.
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Living Bauhaus, a German real estate investor, halted a residential project involving the removal of parts of the Berlin Wall after a public outcry over the impact of gentrification on the German capital’s Cold War legacy.
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World leaders mourned former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died today at the age of 87, with discordant criticism coming from the leader of Ireland’s Sinn Fein party.
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Checkpoint Charlie is once again home to the Berlin Wall and the Cold War. Two new attractions aim to cater for tourists hungry for information about the historic site at the heart of the German capital.
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It was a chilly night for high summer in Berlin 50 years ago tomorrow, and it took East German Communists only about five hours to divide one of Europe’s grandest cities neatly in two.
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In the 1980s, a joke that ran through California political circles was that more turnover occurred in the Soviet Union’s Politburo than in the state’s U.S. House delegation.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the political revolution in Egypt won’t have the same impact on the global economy as the collapse of the Berlin Wall two decades ago.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German leaders gathered in the capital today to mark the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s construction as a debate over its place in history laid bare a legacy of political division.
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More than a third of Berliners say the construction of the Berlin Wall 50 years ago was at least partly justified to stem the flow of refugees from East Germany and stabilize Cold War tensions, a poll showed.
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