The Berlin Wall

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Khrushchev's Son to Speak  Not rated yet
Khrushchev's son to speak


When documentary filmmaker John Michalczyk focused his lens on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an important ...

Tour Dresden  Not rated yet
Tour Dresden on a bicycle.

Wind whips through my hair as I leisurely pedal along Dresden's main drag, the River Elbe promenade. It's winter and the ...

Neo-Nazi March Blocked in Dresden  Not rated yet
Neo-Nazi march blocked in Dresden.


More than 10,000 protesters blocked a major neo-Nazi march in the former East German city of Dresden, forming a ...

Leipzig Bach's Home  Not rated yet
Leipzig Bach's home...

It takes my encyclopedia only three paragraphs into its entry on Germany’s 10th largest city to make reference to Leipzig as ...

Music Guests from Leipzig  Not rated yet
Music guests from Leipzig

Knowing when and where Luciano Pavarotti first sang “Nessun dorma” onstage in a performance of Puccini’s “Turandot” may be ...

BMW Builds Electric Cars  Not rated yet
BMW builds electric cars


Think they’ll ever make another Bourne movie? You never know, CIA agent Jason Bourne could be called out of retirement. Perhaps ...

Berlin Architecture  Not rated yet
Berlin Architecture

In 1999, Jörg Ebers was 30 years old, living in Berlin and finishing his architectural degree. But instead of looking for an architecture ...

Iron Curtain Biking Trails  Not rated yet
THE first thing that struck us was the distance between the watchtowers. We had just cycled a strenuous mile uphill above the medieval village of Geisa,...

Communist Secret Files  Not rated yet
Berlin - Like an unwanted gift that keeps on giving, files from the spying machines of the former East European dictatorships continue to come into the ...

Berlin Wall Gone not Forgotten  Not rated yet
Berlin, separated by a wall, was for years the symbol of a divided world. Nowadays, it’s more likely to be thought of as the hippest party city in Europe....

Berlin Wall in Wilshire  Not rated yet
In what government and arts officials are calling the most ambitious commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany,...

Berlin Wall Mattresses  Not rated yet
20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall three young German artists mark the occasion - with mattresses.

Slogans printed on the foam exhibits read ...

East Germans Escape Relived  Not rated yet
BERLIN — In the summer of 1989, as the winds of change were slowly sweeping away the Iron Curtain, tens of thousands of East Germans fled their oppressive ...

Bike Touring Europe Style  Not rated yet
In the spine-tingling embrace of a fine European city, how do you effectively, efficiently and affordably see the sights?

Blowing through the brilliance ...

East German Escapes  Not rated yet
April 1983 saw two young man on a flying high wire swoop to freedom by firing a cable attached to a steel-tipped arrow from the roof of a five-story building ...

Berlin Wall Photo Gallery  Not rated yet
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Historians have long argued over whether East German leader Walter Ulbricht or his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev was ...

'Lay an iron ring': Krushchev order for Berlin Wall is finally uncovered  Not rated yet
ALMOST 20 years after it fell, the Berlin Wall has given up its last secret. A German researcher has found in a Moscow archive the long-sought, conclusive ...

Desperate East Germans Tried....  Not rated yet
For almost 30 years, desperate East Germans tried to drive through it, tunnel under it and fly over it. More than 136 died in the attempt.

Less than ...

Khrushchev Ordered Berlin Wall Construction  Not rated yet
Almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it has now surfaced who ordered its construction.

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave the go-ahead ...