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About the Author: Dr. Peter Kramer serves as a Historian at the U.S. Department of State. Part 1: The Rise of the Berlin Wall The original response of the U.S. government was cool. As you know, President John Kennedy was president at the time. Full Article at Dipnote | US Dept. of State Blog
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(On Nov. 9, 1989, residents of East Germany were allowed to pass through the gates of the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. That started the fall of the Berlin Wall, which marked the end of the Cold War. Full Article at United Press International
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CELEBRATIONS, remembrances and joyful exuberance enveloped Germany today, the 20th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall came down, a momentous event that helped transform Europe and signaled the beginning of the end of communism on the continent. Full Article at Shanghai Daily
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On November 9, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit Germany to participate in international events to celebrate the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Full Article at The Market Oracle
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The concrete wall that divided the city of Berlin for 28 years is suddenly splitting a segment of Los Angeles' art community just as the 20th anniversary of the wall's falling nears. Full Article at San Diego Union-Tribune
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One of the important aspects of globalization was information technology ... What the radio and television was doing was politicizing the world's people. [For much of history] the population of the planet did not know what was going on past their own neighborhood, didn't much care; life went on. All of ...
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We do not want a Europe bristling with barbed wire, we do not want a Europe closed off into compartments
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encouraged and inspired the people of Berlin when he stood before the Schoeneberg town hall in 1963 and said 'All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And, therefore, as a freeman, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
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We are now moving towards the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down and Germany being reunified after so many painful years ... And this is a special moment for Chancellor Merkel, as somebody who grew up in East Germany, who understands what it's like to be under the shadow of a dictatorial re...
