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A piece of the Berlin Wall is now permanently on display at Laurel Hill Park, plus a mural telling the story of the ...
President Obama will deliver a speech to Berlin at Brandenburg Gate Ronald Reagan delivered his famous %22tear down this wall%22 speech in 1987 at the gate Bill Clinton made his %22Berlin is Free ...
The concrete section, weighing over 26,000 pounds and standing nearly 12 feet tall, was presented to Hudson County in 2007 by ...
On August 13 of that year, East German troops positioned themselves by the Brandenburg Gate and started sealing off the West-controlled part of Berlin. The wall, which ran 155 kilometers around ...
When I climbed out of my cab near the Brandenburg Gate, wearing civilian clothes ... shoot civilians if they tried to escape East Berlin once The Wall was under construction.
spoke at the base of the Brandenburg Gate, near the Berlin Wall, on June 12, 1987. Due to the amplification system being used, Reagan's words could be heard in East Berlin. During his address ...
His speech, met with occasional cheers, was delivered near the Brandenburg Gate, which towers over the wall from East Berlin, and broadcast throughout Europe. Reagan was heading back to Washington ...
A giant Jewish menorah was erected in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, last week. The 234-year-old historic monument once stood in the backdrop of Germany's tumultuous history.
Now the crowd was listless, the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate, recently restored ... actively financed their own venues, the wall fostered Berlin’s culture long before it fell.
The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year ...
“It started that very same evening,” says Cornelia Thiele of the Berlin Wall Foundation. “We have pictures of the Wall, in front of the Brandenburg Gate on the night of Nov 9, where people ...