The Bornholmer Strasse crossing in Berlin was the first to open ... Today, there is a section of Wall slabs with photos and a series of plaques – including an alert sent by the Associated ...
BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the ...
From his nearby tree, Harris photographed a defiant man atop the wall, completely soaked but gesturing peace signs ... to East Berlin. On the morning of 10 November, he was crossing into East ...
Located at the junction of Friedrichstraße with Zimmerstraße and Mauerstraßeand, Checkpoint Charlie was one of the crossing ... plaques, and the like. Near the Berlin Wall Memorial The ...
At the end of his speech, Harmanci and Prountzos presented him with a wooden plaque marking 20 years ... the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and this coincidence offered the ...
The 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this month received little attention ... but for some, the ...
At an event marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, the city's mayor, Kai Wegner, said November 9 remains a fateful day for Germany - both in a positive and ...
The crossing was the only point through which foreigners were permitted to pass. 7 East German soldiers patrolling along the wall near Berlin's train station in September 1987. The buffer between ...
Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol ... the first East Germans crossing the border, crowds of West Berliners climbing atop the wall at the Brandenburg ...
which takes in the Berlin Wall Memorial, the former border crossing Checkpoint Charlie, and the Brandenburg Gate, where themed exhibitions make the events of 1989-90 tangible through photos ...
Rothweiler was in Rome on the historic night of Nov. 9, 1989, when East German citizens began crossing freely through the Berlin Wall for the first time in nearly three decades. “It seemed ...