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Unearthing Berlin’s Charm: From History to Hipster Havens
Ah, Berlin! The city where history meets hipsters, and street art adorns walls with stories to tell. But with so much to ...
The Atlantic1mon
The People of East Berlin
Thousands of East Berliners have relatives and friends in West Berlin and in West Germany, separated from them by the Wall and the barbed wire. In many cases mother is separated from son ...
Al Jazeera on MSN10d
Bowie’s Berlin: Up against the wall
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 ...
Irish Examiner on MSN5d
How I spent a long weekend in Berlin exploring its turbulent past and vibrant present
November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency5y
What the fall of the Berlin Wall meant for Eastern European Jews
After reunification, East Germans felt that they had been colonized ... Anyone who has reported from the region since the fall of the Berlin Wall has heard their own stories of young people ...
Human Rights Watch8y
EAST GERMANY
The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...
BBC10mon
The Berlin Wall - CCEA
On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...
Business Insider India5y
You can still see the divide between West and East Berlin from space
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between ...
The Washington Post1mon
In ‘The Granddaughter,’ Germans reckon with the past
When the Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago, Americans could watch live on television as grievous wrongs were righted. The tyrannical East German state collapsed, and freedom was restored in the heart ...