Tens of thousands celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago
It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a ...
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Panorama Goes to Berlin
The exodus of refugees from East to West Berlin reached 1,500 per day before the Berlin Wall was put up. ↗ Originally broadcast 31 July 1961.
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“The main credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall belongs to Pope John Paul II”
“The first wall to fall was pushed over in 1980 in the Polish shipyards. Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the ...
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35 years ago, family witnessed history as Berlin Wall fell [I Know a Story column]
New Year’s Day, our last day in Berlin, was spent following Eric’s friend, Kevin, to a location along the wall, where the concrete was easier to chisel into smaller pieces to bring back home.
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The Berlin Wall - CCEA
The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... On 1 May 1960, just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris ...
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How the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired filmmakers
Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most momentous geopolitical events of the 20th century. Germany was ...
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Stephan Stiess: How I remember the fall of the Berlin wall
The next day, he joined the enormous queue of East-Germans wanting to explore the other side of the now defunct wall. Stephan Stiess from Newcastle in Australia was 19 years old when the Berlin ...