The Berlin Wall: 15 years on
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It may be 15 years to the day since the Berlin Wall fell, but &quot;die Mauer im Kopf&quot; (literally, the wall in the head) is still there for many Germans.
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Wall or no wall, eastern Germany's best and brightest still want to get out. Since 1991, the first full year of Germany unity, 2 million people have migrated to the economically sounder west of Germany and ...
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While growing up on "the wrong side" of the wall  in Soviet-controlled East Berlin,    Wolfgang Thierse  was shushed into absolute silence when his father strained to listen to jammed broadcasts of parliamentary debates in West Germany. Thierse dreamed one day of directing such discussions himself.
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Sixty years after the historic Yalta conference, its repercussions can still be felt throughout Europe.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - 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's watch 18 years ago.
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PRAGUE, Nov 24 (IPS) - Millions in Eastern Europe remain convinced that  life was better for them before communism collapsed 15 years ago.
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In honor of the 15-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Arnold Krammer, a history professor at A&amp;M, told the story of one East German soldier whose decision to not shoot protestors allowed for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Fifteen years after the Berlin Wall fell, a Berlin museum plans to rebuild a section of the concrete barrier close to the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing.
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A hasty U-turn on plans to scrap Germany's unification day holiday just before the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has exposed cracks in the government and sparked an ugly row about patriotism.
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The president of a German university gave Ashland University students a better understanding of the events which surrounded the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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Germans marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday, with high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense in people&#39;s
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Only about 25m of the reinforced concrete wall panels remain. Some of the panels are pock-marked and worse for the wear of time and the hundreds of thousands of tourists who each year caress the lurid graffiti ...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was a glorious moment in European history. It brought freedom to the half of Europe that suffered under political and economic tyranny for over four decades.
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It was March, 1945. With the Battle of the Bulge and the crossing of the Rhine River behind them, U.S. troops were swiftly moving across flat country toward Berlin.
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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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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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BERLIN, GERMANY.- The portrait of a US soldier is seen behind wooden crosses at a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Berlin wall near the Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.