Berlin's socialist TV tower is style icon
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Looking like a futuristic satellite looming high above the city, Berlin's television tower once symbolised the soaring ambitions of the young East German state.
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BONN, GERMANY.- Thirteen years after the end of Communism in East Germany, the exhibition looks back on fourty years of art in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The exhibition shows works of art that ...
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It was easy for culture to be overlooked amid the heady events after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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While appearing innocuous from the ground, the striking shape of a construction in San Diego, now on view to internet users accessing Google Earth, is unmistakable - it resembles the Nazi symbol.
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COTTBUS - Former communist East Germany has been transformed for the better 15 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall even though big problems remain including high unemployment and a worrying tendency of voters to back extremist parties.
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When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, East German chef Joern Aksel had one goal in mind: to cross to the West to see the famous food hall at luxury department store KaDeWe.
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Almost 15 years later, the Berlin Wall is rising again, overlooking the former Checkpoint Charlie, once the most famous meeting point between the Soviet and free worlds.
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Visitors to Germany's reunited capital do not have to look far to find the "Berlin Wall". At sundown, near the city's former Allied crossing, Checkpoint Charlie, floodlights glare on a 200-metre stretch of ...
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Wolfgang Heene, who helped communist East Germany build the Berlin Wall as a young soldier in 1961, has retired to a sleepy village on the Baltic shore -- which in turn is having a barrier built around it.
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The yellowing linoleum and faded  wallpaper in the former prison of the East German secret police  would be ultra hip in any German bar.
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A documentary tracking how German unification affected the lives of nine East German women who took part in a beauty pageant just before the Berlin Wall fell offers a glimpse into 19 years of upheaval.
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"The R.A.F.: The Myth," inspired by the radical leftist Red Army Faction, has opened in Berlin amid debate over the romanticization of terrorism.
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BERLIN Claudia Windisch is just one of many East Germans looking for a job. Yet finding work as an architect, never easy in the best of times, has proved difficult for Windisch, 25, who graduated from college last March in her native Saxony.
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Berlin was celebrating on Sunday after winning its bid to host the 2009 world athletics championships, a decision that capped a week of triumph for Germany&#39;s capital city.
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George W. Bush has often expressed his admiration for the yearning for freedom in Communist East Germany that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall on his father&#39;s watch 18 years ago.
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Fifteen years after the Berlin Wall's collapse, the lovingly restored houses, squares and churches in the medieval town of Goerlitz are monuments to what's gone wrong in Germany's massive effort to revive its ...
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The Berlin Wall fell 15 years ago but an  "Iron Curtain" still divides the city as far love and romance  are concerned.