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West Germany and the former Communist East are still 'astonishingly different'
From the amount they earn to their religious convictions and cars they drive, gaping differences between Germans in the former Communist East and the West persist after almost 25 years of...
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The AP just put one million minutes of historical footage on YouTube — here...
The Associated Press and partner British Movietone have made 120 years of historical news footage available online for the first time ever by uploading 550,000 YouTube videos. That adds up to over one...
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Here's just how crazy things got on the night the Berlin Wall came down
In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history, archival...
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32 things everyone should do in Germany
Germany is famous for fast cars and good beer, but there's much more to the country than that. In fact, Germany was recently voted the world's third-most tourism-friendly country by the World...
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GERMANY: Thank you David Bowie for helping bring down the Berlin Wall
The German Foreign Office has memorialized the late music legend David Bowie by thanking him for his role in bringing down the Berlin wall. Good-bye, David Bowie. You are now among #Heroes. Thank you...
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32 things everyone should do in Germany
Germany is famous for fast cars and good beer, but there's much more to the country than that. In fact, Germany was recently voted the world's third-most tourism-friendly country by the World...
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Here's what the end of globalization looks like
Since the end of World War II, a commitment to open trade — paired with ironclad security agreements with Japan and NATO — had been the cornerstone of American foreign policy. Last Thursday, those...
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Border walls are going up globally at a dizzying pace — but history teaches...
U.S President Donald Trump is still trying to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico. Throughout history, countless walls were built to keep out enemies such as the Great Wall and...
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Construction on the Berlin Wall started 57 years ago — here's what it looked...
RFE/RL archival photos of the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. All of the photographs in this slide show were all culled from the RFE/RL archives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford...
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18 stunning photos from the night the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and separated East and West Berlin. The wall divided families and took away basic human rights. On November 9, 1989, people gathered at the wall to begin tearing it...
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These are 6 of NATO's worst crises in 70 years as the world's most powerful...
During the Cold War, NATO effectively defended Western Europe with US nuclear weapons. Twelve countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949, and NATO has since grown to 29 countries, including...
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30 years after Tiananmen Square massacre, China is more authoritarian than...
In the thirty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, China has emerged as a global economic powerhouse as its government has become increasingly repressive. The events on June 4, 1989, shaped...
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The Berlin Wall has been gone longer than it stood. Here's how the 28-mile...
The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago on November 9, 1989. Many areas where the wall once stood show no vestiges of it today. These photos show how the wall serves as an ever-present reminder of Berlin's...
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The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago. Here's how people who were there in 1989...
The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago, on November 9, 1989. It was a moment that shocked the world and marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War — culminating in the toppling of the East German...
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21 stunning photos from the night the Berlin Wall came tumbling down 30 years...
The Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989, reuniting East and West Germany, and foreshadowing the fall of the Soviet Union. It stood for 28 years to separate the two sides of Berlin and...
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You can still see the divide between West and East Berlin from space
In some ways, Berlin is still divided 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Seen from space, the city's lights show a stark contrast, with orange lights in the east and white lights in the west....
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35 unexpected places the Berlin Wall ended up around the world
After the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, pieces of it scattered around the world. These photos show the surprising places the pieces ended up, from the grounds of the Vatican to a bathroom...
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Berliners tried to send Trump a piece of the Berlin Wall with a message...
Berliners tried to send President Donald Trump a chunk of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, along with a message saying "no wall lasts forever." Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the...
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Vintage photos that show what life looked like behind the Iron Curtain
Before the end of the Cold War, the Iron Curtain sealed off the Soviet Union from the rest of Europe.Life in the Soviet Union was restricted, but as its leaders changed, rules became more relaxed and...
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How a mistake at a press conference helped bring down the Berlin Wall
Summary List PlacementThis October 3 marked the 30th anniversary of when East Germany, or the GDR, ceased to exist and its territories joined with the Federal Republic of Germany.Many steps led to...
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