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Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world
It culminated in one of the most famous scenes in recent history - the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall came down partly because of a bureaucratic accident but it fell amid a wave of revolutions ...
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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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“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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What the fall of the Berlin Wall meant for Eastern European Jews
Anyone who has reported from the region since the fall of the Berlin Wall has heard their own stories of young people whose parents unearthed their Jewishness, bequeathing to their children a ...
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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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 ...