Tens of thousands celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago
because without freedom everything else is nothing,” Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner said at an official anniversary event with ...
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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 ...
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What the fall of the Berlin Wall meant for Eastern European Jews
And the freedom to travel and the birth of cheap ... as did programs like the Jewish Agency’s MiNYamin Fellowship. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolutions of 1989 made all this ...
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The Berlin Wall - CCEA
The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... military presence was necessary to protect West Berlin’s freedom. On 1 May 1960, just thirteen days before the USA and ...
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35 years ago, family witnessed history as Berlin Wall fell [I Know a Story column]
That quest for freedom included many East Germans risking ... With autumn of 2024 having been the 35th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin wall, all of us remember back to one incredible ...
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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 ...
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Berlin Wall Memorial
Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...