History

On November 9th, 1938, Nazi mobs destroyed businesses owned by Jews and synagogues all over Germany. Fifty-one years later, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Obviously, November 9th is an ambivalent date.

Thirty-three years ago, on November 9th, 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall was the beginning of the end of Germany's division. Traces of those difficult times,…

It started in Cologne. The artist Gunter Demnig could not accept the fact that residents did not know people of Romani origin who used to live there were…

In Berlin, Romani Rose of the Central Council of German Roma and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier joined a commemoration for members of this minority who were murdered by the Nazis. Steinmeier apologized to the Romani people.

From 1969 to 1971, Robert W. Rynerson was part of the U.S. Army Berlin Brigade. He got to see West Berlin, a West German enclave surrounded by the communist…

On November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Less than a year later, on October 3rd, 1990, Germany's reunification took place. Another thirty-two years later,…

Fifty years ago, Palestinian terrorists murdered almost the entire Israeli team at the Olympic Games in Munich. Back then, the West German authorities made serious mistakes. One of those has not been corrected until today.

The Berlin Wall was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area of the Soviet Bloc and the West during the Cold War. Back then, there were GDR…

On June 15th, 1961, the GDR's dictator Walter Ulbricht said nobody had the intention to build a wall. But two months later, the communist regime did so anyway.…

The hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims of Romani origin are not being commemorated much. The Council of Europe and other organizations want this to change, 78 years after the Nazis "cleared" the 'Gypsy Family Camp'.