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A reason to remember
Chişinău :: Moldova | about 19 hours ago
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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
The Sandmannchen, Germany's cutest communist, turns 50
Berlin :: Germany | 2 days ago
Credibility 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
Tony Patterson: The bratwurst is yet to come
Berlin :: Germany | 2 days ago
Credibility 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
Securitate in all but name
Bucharest :: Romania | 5 days ago
Credibility 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
Children's TV character the Sandman turns 50
Potsdam :: Germany | 5 days ago
Credibility The communists beat the West with Sputnik and the first man in space, but they also won a race to televise a German cultural icon sporting a pointy hat, a white goatee and a bag of magic sleepy sand to help boys and girls have a good night. On November...
Tags: Sandman, West Berlin, tv character, RBB, Germany, Potsdam, Sleep, Dream, Jim Fullington, Sandy Hawkins, The Sandman, Dreaming, Folklore
Peace Prayers and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Leipzig :: Germany | 7 days ago
Credibility Christian Fuehrer was born in Leipzig in 1943 and has been the pastor at Leipzig's St...He became world-renowned after the reunification of the two Germanys as the initiator of the 1982 Leipzig-incepted peace prayers against the arms race between East...
Tags: peaceful prayers, Leipzig, Mr. Fuehrer, GDR, prayers services, Jesus, Christian Fuehrer, East Germany, West Germany, West Berlin, Germany, Christian Fￃﾼhrer, Catholic spirituality, Christian prayer, Prayer, Spiritual practice, Spirituality
Air Berlin reports doubled profits (AFP)
Frankfurt :: Germany | 7 days ago
Credibility Air Berlin , Germany's second biggest airline after Lufthansa, on Tuesday reported that its net profit more than doubled in the third quarter of this year on a 12-month comparison. The company posted a net profit of 95.2 million euros (141.4 million dollars)...
Tags: million euros, Air Berlin, net profits, Germany, Frankfurt, Business Finance, West Germany, Berlin, Transport in Berlin, Lufthansa, West Berlin
Germany's resurgent Jews | Alexander Goldberg and Silke Goldberg
Munich :: Germany | 8 days ago
Credibility Germany's resurgent Jews Overcoming the legacies of pogrom and Holocaust, Germany's Jews are beginning to put down secure roots The date 9 November has often been called the Schicksalstag ("day of fate") in German history, marking the day in 1918 Philipp...
Tags: Eastern Germany, Berlin Wall, East Berlin, jewish communities, West Berlin, Berlin Republic, Germany, Munich, Kristallnacht, Secular Jewish culture, Jew, Berlin, The Holocaust, Jewish history, November, November 9th in German history, Religion Belief
The day one wrong word changed history
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | 8 days ago
Credibility Freedom, though, came to the East Berliners all at once, in an unexpected flood, on Nov. 9, 1989, thanks to one powerful word that was uttered erroneously at a press conference by a member of the ruling Communist Party. No longer able to control defections...
Tags: West Berlin, west berliners, East Berliners, Hansi, Bob Rigney, east germans, Pan American Airlines, West Germany, Rigneys, Berlin Wall, Guatemala, Guatemala City
The Dogs of Wall
Heidelberg :: Germany | 11 days ago
Credibility Many years ago, in a time that now feels like it was another life, we lived in Germany. It was West Germany then, a clearly distinguished part of the world very separate in almost every way from the other Germany, the place known as 'East'. Between the...
Tags: West Germany, Germany, Heidelberg, Eastern bloc, Checkpoint Charlie, West Berlin, German Autobahns, Autobahn, Cold War, Allied occupation of Germany, Checkpoints
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