Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...

The moment took me back to 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, signaling the beginning of the end of Soviet Communism and ...

Germans commemorated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which on Nov. 9, 1989, ended a years-long divide between East and West Germany. Twenty five years ago Sunday ...

The slogan of the 1989 protesters will be on the monument: "We are the people. We are one people" Little remains of the Berlin Wall, but a new monument in the German capital will honour the ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolutions of 1989 made all this possible. It was a victory for Jewish life. Communism could not provide the conditions necessary to live as a minority ...

Holger used a bow and arrow to fire a cable across the Berlin Wall, and zip-wired to the West; and in May 1989 Ingo and Holger flew two ultra-light planes over the Wall, picked up brother Egbert ...

the Berlin Wall was a heavily guarded barrier that physically and ideologically divided the city from 1961 to 1989. In a wider context, the wall came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.