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GERMANS SEE ALMOST NO PROGRESS ON EAST-WEST UNITY IN THE PAST 7 YEARS STUDY SAYS
Eastern Germany still lags behind the western parts of the country in terms of its economic performance and unemployment rates, despite continuous financial assistance since reunification... READ MORE›
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'IF YOU DON'T TAKE A JOB AS A PROSTITUTE, WE CAN STOP YOUR BENEFITS'
Employers in the sex industry can also advertise in job centres, a move that came into force this month... READ MORE›
BERLINS DIGITAL EXILES: WHERE TECH ACTIVISTS GO TO ESCAPE THE NSA
Activist Sarah Harrison, who spent four months assisting whistleblower Edward Snowden, has moved to Berlin... READ MORE›
'MR PRESIDENT, DON'T BUILD THIS WALL!'
'Mr President, don't build this wall!' Berlin's mayor urges Trump to learn from history... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
BERLIN MARKET ATTACK MARS SQUARE WHERE THREE ERAS COEXIST
My friend Uli Kempendorff, who grew up in East Berlin, emailed me on Monday night... READ MORE›
AS GERMANY MARKS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, GORBACHEV WARNS OF NEW COLD WAR
As germany marks fall of the berlin wall gorbachev warns of new cold war... READ MORE›
NINE SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
An East Berlin policeman adds bricks to heighten the Berlin Wall to 15 feet Oct... READ MORE›
BALLOONS REPLACE BARBED WIRE AS ILLUMINATED INSTALLATION MARKS ROUTE 25 YEARS AFTER THE FALL
Fall of the Berlin Wall Balloons replace barbed wire as illuminated installation marks route 25 years after the fall... READ MORE›
HELMUT KOHL: LEADER WHO UNITED EUROPE AS WELL AS GERMANY
Both reasoned that Europe would only be safe and secure if its two leading powers and its most frequent antagonists, France and Germany, worked in tandem... READ MORE›
SLEUTH WORK LEADS TO DISCOVERY OF ART BELOVED BY HITLER
Two large and imposing bronze horses by Josef Thorak missing from a Soviet military base outside Berlin since some point in communism's collapse were available... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
THE SPIES WHO LOVED ME: MY DAD, THE STASI AGENT
He was locked away for three years after 10 informants betrayed him to the Stasi, East Germany's feared secret service... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: THE GUARD WHO OPENED THE GATE - AND MADE HISTORY
Mr J ger, now 71, is renowned in Germany for being the man who opened the Berlin Wall ... READ MORE›
EAST GERMAN OFFICER HARALD JAEGER EXPLAINS WHY HE OPENED THE BERLIN WALL
Within hours East Germans were dancing on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate and other border crossings soon opened... READ MORE›
JFK, REAGAN WORDS HELPED BRING DOWN BERLIN WALL
President Ronald Reagan speaks at the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: GOOGLE COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH VIDEO DOODLE
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
BERLIN WALL ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SYMBOLIC RISE AND FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN
Here, we take a look through some of the best photographs from the rise and fall of the 'Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart'... READ MORE›
GNTER SCHABOWSKI WHOSE GAFFE HELPED BURST THE BERLIN WALL DIES AT 86
Within hours, thousands of East Germans were thronging the checkpoints to West Berlin, demanding to be allowed to cross... READ MORE›
SOME LEADERS LOVE BORDER WALLS, BUT DO THEY WORK?
East Berlin 'cut off from the world' The Berlin Wall wasn't built to collect taxes or to stop invaders, but to keep people in... READ MORE›
GERMANS HAVE BEEN REFUGEES BEFORE - THEY SEE THEMSELVES IN THESE SYRIANS
It opened the border to Austria and let them through on their way to West Germany... READ MORE›
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV WARNS GLOBAL POWERS HAVE PUT THE WORLD 'ON THE BRINK OF A NEW COLD WAR'
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that tensions between the major powers have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War... READ MORE›
STASI VICTIMS STILL IN TRAUMA AS GERMANY CHEERS 25 YEARS SINCE WALL FELL
2 billion euros on rehabilitation payments, according to a 2013 government report examining the progress made in redressing East Germany's wrongs... READ MORE›
BERLIN WALL BALLOONS RELEASED TO MARK ANNIVERSARY
Germany marks 25 years since fall of berlin wall... READ MORE›
EGON BAHR WHO LAID GROUNDWORK FOR GERMAN REUNIFICATION DIES AT 93
Two years later, in a controversial speech, Mr. Bahr articulated his concept of change through contact in dealing with East Germany and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
MEET THE TORONTONIAN WHO LITERALLY HELPED TEAR DOWN BERLIN WALL
You have to really realize the freedom we have to do whatever we want here whereas in East Berlin people had no freedom... READ MORE›
WEST BERLIN RECALLS 'ISLAND' OF FREEDOM THAT VANISHED WITH WALL
I don't like Ossies and can't stand being around them, said west Berlin native Monika Bruecker... READ MORE›
GUENTER SCHABOWSKI, E. GERMAN WHO ANNOUNCED BERLIN WALL OPENING, DIES
Guenter Schabowski, who announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, in 1989... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | GERMANY'S 'CHANCELLOR OF REUNIFICATION' LEFT BEHIND A LASTING, AND YET UNFINISHED LEGACY
Roland Holschneider DRESDEN, Germany -- Some world leaders may find it challenging to direct one country... READ MORE›
HEINZ KESSLER WHO LED EAST GERMANYS MILITARY DIES AT 97
BERLIN -- Heinz Kessler, a former head of East Germany's armed forces and a die-hard Communist to the last, died on May 2 in eastern Berlin... READ MORE›