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...applies in general." Not a Word The year 1990 was one of major negotiations. Washington, Moscow, London, Bonn, Paris, Warsaw, East Berlin and many others were at odds over German unity, comprehensive European disarmament and a new charter...

In this article: NATO, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Russia, Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev, Dmitry Medvedev, Eduard Shevardnadze, and Soviet Union

...a sufficiently strong force." The clearance on Tuesday was the finale of a star-crossed story that goes back decades. The house, in former East Berlin district of Mitte, had stood empty immediately after the fall of the Wall. Then a group of...

In this article: Berlin, Bonn, and East Berlin

...city's reputation as a world capital of the emerging creative class. When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, visitors to the former East Berlin found little else but grim hotels with barebones amenities and rude service. By the early...

In this article: Berlin, Camper, El Bulli, Copper, Gucci, and Jetsons

...by the [East German Secret Service] and censored." The pair, who were born during the last years of World War II, had been neighbors in East Berlin and became good friends just months before Irmgard and her family fled to the West. "I...

In this article: West Berlin, Berlin, Communism, Democracy, East Berlin, Second World War, Britannica.com, and Soviet Union

...ROGER MELIS Auf der Museumsinsel, Berlin Photo: ROGER MELIS Sarah Kirsch auf Ausreiseki Photo: ROGER MELIS Walk along the Spree from East Berlin towards their old Soviet centrepiece, the Alexanderplatz television tower, and if you look...

In this article: Germany, Berlin, Aachen, and East Berlin

...in instead, although not the one from Berlin with the jaunty green man who flashed up on the old East Berlin traffic crossings. For some reason the East Berlin green crossing man was happy and the West Berlin man sad. I'm sure she could put...

In this article: Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Lord of the Flies, William Golding, East Berlin, Battle of Britain, and Tony Blair

...or the empire behind it. Despite extensive security, freedom-loving individuals escaped; others died trying. West Berlin prospered. East Berlin remained a sullen gray. The wall became a site for storied rhetoric. President John Kennedy...

In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Acquiescence, Communism, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Bolshevik, and John Kennedy

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 catching up: East Berlin native Alena Eckelmann Brecht expert and former East Berlin resident Akira Ichikawa in Tokyo on Sunday, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. ALENA ECKELMANN PHOTO From East Berlin to...

In this article: East Berlin, Tokyo, Spaghetti, Soy sauce, Banana, Humboldt University, and Asia

...into the West. Aug 19, 1961. Wall claims first life as man falls to his death trying to climb down from his top-floor apartment in East Berlin's Bernauerstrasse to pavement below in West Berlin. Aug 24, 1961. Date of what is generally...

In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, Erich Honecker, East Berlin, Democracy, Warsaw Pact, and Egon Krenz

...horns of the emerging Trabant cars sounded, the air thick with the smell of their two-stroke engines. Later I crossed the border into East Berlin, greeted by the incongruous sight of East German border guards standing on top of the wall,...

In this article: David Bowie, Trabant, East Berlin, Trivial Pursuit, Nazism, Neukoeln, and Iggy Pop