Fall of the Berlin Wall 30: The Significance
Normally, walls are being built to keep people out. But in two cases, they were built to keep people in. This applies to jail walls and the Berlin Wall.
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The ‘Extended Berlin Wall’: Shot to Death in Bulgaria
The Berlin Wall, which fell thirty years ago in November, was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area…
Fall of the Berlin Wall 30: The Construction
August 12th, 1961, was a warm summer day in Berlin. Just like today, tourists looked at Brandenburg Gate from all…
Fall of the Berlin Wall 30: Following the ‘Wall Path’
In today's Berlin, parts of the Wall are still standing, as reminders. Every day, some of the 13 million tourists…
Berlin’s Governing Mayor Müller on July 20th: ‘Life in Freedom is Not…
Müller continued saying "this act and the historic experience connected to the resistance teach us that freedom and…
Series with an Effect: German TV Reruns ‘Holocaust’
The message conveyed by ‘Holocaust’: It can happen again, anywhere and anytime. Now those responsible for the rerun…
Fall of the Berlin Wall 30: The Victims
More than 100,000 citizens of the so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR) tried to flee to Western Germany via…
Walter Scheel: The Man who Changed Horses in Bonn
It was in 1969 when Walter Scheel made history. Obviously, it took him some effort to convince his party to change…
June 17th, 1953: The East German Uprising and its Suppression
In the morning of June 17th, 1953, workers at factories all over the GDR commenced a strike. Huge protests took…
Anne Frank: ‘People are Really Good at Heart’
Anne Frank, probably the most prominent Holocaust victim, would have celebrated her 90th birthday today. She died…