A look back: East Germany's first freely elected parliament
Germany's reunification.On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union emerged as the strongest party after the election ...
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The Berlin Wall: Tracing Its History and Legacy in Modern-Day Berlin
East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world ...
What it was like witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall
When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...
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Did you know? Two pieces of the Berlin Wall are in Central New York
Did you know Central New York holds pieces of the Berlin Wall? Discover where these Cold War relics are hidden and their ...
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German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall
The American, British and French sectors formed West Germany in 1949, while the Soviet sector was East Germany. Berlin was also split four ways even though it was in the Soviet zone, with the ...
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Panorama - Berlin
It's with surprising ease that Robert Kee steps across the border from East to West Berlin as, before the erection of the wall, the division that split the city was all but invisible. In his ...
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QuickCheck: Is the ‘divide’ between East and West Berlin visible from space?
PETALING JAYA: It has been over 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell, uniting the east and west of the city. While the people are now living together after the Peaceful Revolution, is it true that ...
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The Berlin Wall - CCEA
Khrushchev became so troubled with this situation that in November 1958 he gave a speech in Moscow in which he gave the West an ultimatum. He demanded that, as Berlin lay in East Germany ...
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How Germany’s enduring East-West divide is pushing voters to the fringes
More than three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seems ... most of them highly educated – would migrate from east to west, leaving the country suffering from a drastic case of ...
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What Germany’s East-West divide means for the election
The division between Germany’s East and West did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. An invisible “wall” still runs across the country when key demographic indicators are mapped.
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The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany’s Election
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...
Five key takeaways from the German election
Put simply, more than four in every five of Germany's 59.2 million voters turned out. It reflects just how energised Germans have been by this election, which comes at a pivotal moment for their ...