East Germany Becoming a Retro Utopia 15 Years On
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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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BERLIN Nearly 15 years since masses of demonstrators swelled the streets of East Germany, toppling the Berlin Wall and uniting Germany, a new wave of protests is rolling through eastern towns and cities from ...
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TONY EASTLEY: Almost 60 years after the end of the Second World War, tensions between Britain and Germany have resurfaced, this time revived by a planned visit to Germany by the Queen.
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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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Nearly 60 percent of Germans in the former Soviet bloc eastern half of the country believe that it will take "more than 10 years" for their living conditions to catch up with those in western Germany, according ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - More than 60 years after the end of World War Two, German author Bernhard Schlink found the time was right to explore the guilt and moral conflicts which were a legacy of his home country's Nazi past.
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THE Federal Republic of Germany, celebrates today the 14th anniversary of the unification of Easy and West Germany, separated by different social systems after World War II.
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Germany marks the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with fond memories of that day's joyous celebrations and somber ceremonies in honor of those killed in a desperate dash for freedom.
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Today, Germans remember the fall of the Berlin Wall -- an ecstatic night of pure joy when the communist East German government allowed its citizens unhindered access to the bright lights, well-stocked ...
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For those of us who witnessed the joy and the drama of the end of Communist rule in the former Soviet Union, the past decade has been disappointing.
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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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BEIJING/HONG KONG  - The Cultural Revolution is long over and Mao Zedong dead and preserved for posterity, but a new generation is putting a modern design spin on clothes and accessories inspired by China's Communist heyday.
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BERLIN - Voters in two states in what was East Germany are expressing their discontent with the dominant political parties in Germany by endorsing radical right-wing and former communist parties in state elections, exit polls suggest.
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Political prisoners in former East  Germany were traded for oil, copper and silver in the 30 years  before reunification and human trade with the West formed a  lucrative economic linchpin, the author of a new study said.
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Property is a key factor in the march of expat Britons around Europe. But the reality is far removed from the dream of massive returns in former Eastern bloc nations.
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Heike Mller, a 37-year-old mechanic, embodies what seems to be going right in eastern Germany.
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Germans marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on yesterday, with high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense in people's hearts that the nation has not yet fully ...