West Berlin News

Author Rivka Solomon at the Berlin Wall, November 1989. She chipped off 90lbs of wall - 89 lbs still sits in a dusty box in her basement.

BERLIN a ' Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the barrier's shadow.

Not too long after the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989, my wife and I visited Berlin.

At a German club in Warminster, local German Americans William and Carol Ebinger, William Aust, Louis Oschmann, and Verna McDermott with the wall segment, which arrived in Philadelphia in 1990.

Berlin, Nov 10. Celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago ended in a fanfare of fireworks on Monday, after a thousand giant dominoes toppled in the centre of the once-divided city, watched by leaders and statesmen from Europe and the world.

By Jim Garamone - A divided Berlin symbolized the Cold War. Washington, D.C. - infoZine - American Forces Press Service - The Berlin Wall was a concrete example of the divide between East and West, between totalitarianism and democracy, between communism and capitalism.

St. John's University students Joe Reinhardt and Dan Salay were only a year old when scores of East Germans rushed through the gates of the Berlin Wall unchecked on Nov.

It was the night a country was reunited. When the Berlin Wall came down on November 9 1989, it was the moment that signalled the beginning of the end of Communism in Europe.

The terrifying thing about Mario Rollig's story is the depressing ordinariness of the evil he suffered while imprisoned for three months by the hated Stasi.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reminisced this week about how she was taking a sauna 20 years ago as thousands of fellow easterners surged through breaches in the Berlin Wall to taste freedom.

World leaders past and present gathered in the German capital on Monday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, which led to German reunification and hastened the demise of the Soviet Union.

A section of the Berlin Wall stands on a pedestal in a quiet glen of trees in Warminster, Bucks County, its countenance marked with history.

A West Berlin man was killed yesterday morning after his car swerved on northbound I-676 near Gloucester City, striking a box truck and the guardrail.

People are seen walking around large plastic-foam dominoes, prior to commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday.

Over its 28 years of existence the Berlin Wall was the setting for countless espionage stories, many artfully invented by crime writers, but also many that really took place.

Charles and Sarah Crumpton never realized what a difference a few feet of concrete could make until they moved to West Berlin in 1987.

The Berlin Wall, a symbol of division between Eastern and Western Europe for three decades, fell on Nov.

BERLIN - With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.

Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of overstating his part in the fall of the Berlin Wall, after he claimed to have rushed with a pickaxe in hand the night it fell while archives suggested he only showed up a week later.

It divided a city, a nation and a continent. Twenty years ago, Berliners took a hammer to history.