It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest ... No-one knew the fall of the Wall was weeks away. In late October parliament in ...

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 ...

Scholz said "the victory of freedom in the fall of 1989 was a win for all of Europe." "The fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago was the happy climax of a movement spanning all of Europe," he said ...

BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in ... the country's most historic days on Nov. 9, 1989. It was “a lucky day for which we Germans ...

Ceremonies throughout Berlin on Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, culminating in the release of balloons tracing the former outline of the wall. Photo: Getty Images ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In Dresden, East Germany he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later, Putin and 800,000 KGB officers were left shipwrecked.

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 ...