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Berlin :: Germany | 3 days ago

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For almost 50 years the Ampelmännchen, East Germany’s traffic light symbol, has been telling pedestrians when to cross the road. More human, more chirpy than the green man on Western pedestrian lights, he is East Germany’s most popular and enduring survivor,...

Tags: West Berlin, East Germany, West Michael Binyon, West Germans, east germans, green man, Ampelmännchen, Middle East, berlin wall, little green, Germany, Berlin, Trabant, Ostalgie, Ampelmᅢᄂnnchen, Good Bye Lenin!, Vita-Cola

Berlin :: Germany | 3 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Most long-haul bus services are currently banned within Germany to protect the rail service from competition, but this could end by 2011 pending approval of details in the coalition contract between Angela Merkel�s conservative Christian Democrats and...

Tags: bus services, Deutsche Bahn, Berliner Zeitung, haul bus, Germany, Berlin, West Berlin, Berlin S-Bahn, Politics, Railteam, DB Regio, Transport in Berlin, S-Bahn

Berlin :: Germany | 5 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The court said the German capital could no longer allow stores to open on the four Sundays prior to Christmas, but permitted shopkeepers keep their doors open this Advent season one last time. With the least restricted shopping hours in Germany, Berlin�s...

Tags: Berlin, allowed stores, shops hours, Germany, West Berlin, Politics, Password, Religion Belief, Retailing, Shopping hours

Berlin :: Germany | 6 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The original Bornholmer Stra�e border crossing between Berlin�s Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding districts was the first checkpoint to allow uncontrolled amounts of East Germans to pass through on November 9, 1989. Thousands of German Democratic Republic citizens...

Tags: Berlin Wall, Bornholmer Stra, West Berlin, Germany, Berlin

Berlin :: Germany | 7 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Bosrock brought a hammer and chisel to the Wall to retrieve a couple of souvenirs, which he has displayed in the library of his home.

Tags: Germany, Berlin, West Berlin, Berlin Wall, East Germany, Politics, Anti-communism, Allied occupation of Germany, Business Finance, Barricade, Eastern bloc

Berlin :: PA :: USA | 10 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Twenty years ago, I was a bearded little Dorothy going through a "Wizard of Oz" moment, only in reverse. In October 1989, I passed through Checkpoint Charlie and stepped from the Technicolor world of West Berlin, with all its blue neon theater signs,...

Tags: East Berliners, West Berlin, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin Brigade, Berliner Dom, Ostalgia, world war, war ii, Unter den Linden, German Democratic Republic, Berlin, East Germany, Politics, Cold War, Mitte, Pariser Platz, Eastern bloc, Potsdamer Platz

Chişinău :: Moldova | 12 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, the Berlin Wall came down, pushed by a people who said, "Enough is enough." Enough of communism with its dysfunctional economy and its oppressive control. The shouts and the clamber of the East Berliners ignited sparks that...

Tags: Moldova, Berlin Wall, East Berliners, West Berlin, Tell Zoya, berliners wall, Chişinău, East Germany, Transnistria, Eastern bloc, Anti-communism, Allied occupation of Germany, Politics

Berlin :: Germany | 14 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The citizens of the German Democratic Republic used to habitually tune into West German TV despite the risk of being caught doing so. But once a day at 7pm, millions adjusted their sets to receive the East German channel DDR 1 for the latest exploits...

Tags: West Germany, Germany, Berlin, Sandman, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Berlin Wall, West Berlin, Eastern bloc, Sandmᅢᄂnnchen, East Germany

Berlin :: Germany | 14 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

It takes no more than a trip to a run-of-the-mill Berlin supermarket to realise that the Teutonic Christmas machine has already been thrust into top gear in preparation for the big event. The shelves have suddenly begun bursting with Germany's famous...

Tags: Berliners, entrance fee, Germany, Berlin, Frank Castorf, Stollen, West Berlin, Dᅢᄊner kebab, East Germany, German cuisine, Dresden, Gendarmenmarkt

Bucharest :: Romania | 17 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

For the first time, Romanian-German writer Herta M�ller describes her ongoing experience of Securitate terror. Update October, 8th: Romanian-born German novelist Herta M�ller wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009 ! Here you can read an excerpt from...

Tags: Germany, secret service, Romanian-German, Romanian Society of Authors, Romanian Information Service, Romanian Embassy, Association of Banat Swabians, Banat Association, West German Intelligence Service, West Berlin, Romania, Bucharest

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