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'Ostalgia' spreads as decades pass
10 Nov 2009, 2:20PM
In Berlin, you can holiday in a Communist era hotel and even take tours in a Trabant. But does the fashion for 'Ostalgia' hide a darker, more dangerous trend?
Fall of the Wall: Interactive map
10 Nov 2009, 9:44AM
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down, changing the face of Europe forever - but what was it like to live through those experiences?
Key moments: The wall goes up
01 Nov 2009, 12:00AM
August 13, 1961: Berliners are stunned when they wake to find their city divided by a wall of barbed wire and bricks.
Timeline: From partition to reunification
01 Nov 2009, 12:00AM
For almost 30 years, the people of East and West Berlin, and East and West Germany, lived separate lives, divided by an Iron Curtain.
Wall anniversary inspires call for unity
10 Nov 2009, 6:57PM
World leaders including US President Barack Obama have issued rousing calls to pull together to solve global problems as Germany reflected on its historic day marking the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- The Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989
- Key quotes from the Berlin celebrations
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Key quotes from the Berlin celebrations
10 Nov 2009, 11:34AM
World leaders gathered in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hailing the moment when Europe changed forever.
- The Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989
- Fall of the Berlin Wall: Interactive map
- Emotions flow at Berlin Wall anniversary
Emotions flow at Berlin Wall anniversary
10 Nov 2009, 9:24AM
World leaders joined more than 100,000 revellers for emotional
celebrations 20 years after the Berlin Wall's fall and called for a new
transatlantic push against threats to global peace.
Cities of heroes: risking it all
09 Nov 2009, 5:26PM
The revolutionary year of 1989 saw thousands of ordinary East Germans take to the streets, risking their reputations, careers, and even lives to demand freedom.
- The Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989
- Timeline: From partition to reunification
- Key moments - ''We are the people!''
My part in Wall's downfall: Sarkozy
09 Nov 2009, 5:05PM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has shared his memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall, telling how he chipped away at the concrete slabs with a pickaxe.
- The Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989
- Dominoes form tribute to Berlin Wall
- Key moments - ''Tear down this wall''
Berlin Wall anniversary a call to action: Clinton
09 Nov 2009, 12:31PM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Europeans and Americans
to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a call to
action against new global threats.
Concern for capitalism, 20 years after wall
01 Jan 1970, 10:00AM
Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall heralded the demise of European communism, there is widespread dissatisfaction with capitalism, a poll suggests.
Witness to the Wall
09 Nov 2009, 9:41AM
Baerbel Simon grew up in the American sector of West Berlin, and lived alongside the wall and its 'Death Strip' for decades.
- Key moments - ''Help me, please!''
- Key moments - ''When? Well, immediately''
- Key moments - ''We are the people!''
Putin feels 'nostalgia' for East Germany
09 Nov 2009, 6:20AM
Russia's PM Vladimir Putin says he feels nostalgia for the former East Germany, in the most revealing description yet of his half-decade as a KGB agent.
- The Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989
- My part in Wall''s downfall: Sarkozy
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Berlin Wall re-erected in Los Angeles
06 Nov 2009, 10:28PM
Twenty years after a seismic jolt of history sent it tumbling down, a section of the Berlin Wall has been rebuilt in Los Angeles.
