Berlin, Germany Travel News

Twenty years ago the western world was reunited . While the fall of the communist regime in Eastern Europe and the consequent end of Cold War between URSS and USA has a figurative meaning for the whole world, the fall of Berlin's Wall meant much deeper to many Germans.

When it comes to experiencing historic moments in world history, sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right time.

According to The Berg website, Berliners are getting behind the project as another tourist-attracting option for their fair city.

Germany's diplomatic relations with the Americas are shaped by continuity, a clear focus on the US and by the dominant role played by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The images on my hotel television screen caught my attention. The camera panned past the Brandenburg Gate and zoomed in on the Berlin Wall, which divided the city for nearly 30 miles.

Ordinarily, I detest anniversary stories. They tend to be sleep-inducing pieces that celebrate without informing - and I never know what the right milestone is.

Got 48 hours to spare in Berlin, an eclectic city which proudly bares the scars of the turbulent 20th century history it overcame to become a political and creative powerhouse, bang in the center of Europe.

The streets of Halle are hard to navigate after 20 years. The once-grimy buildings are so spruced up they are unrecognizable.

Saturday, November 14, 2009 Our correspondent Islamabad Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an exhibition of photograph's opened on Friday at the hall of changing exhibitions within Heritage Museum at Shakarparian.

Berlin warmed up Sunday for the 20th anniversary of the Wall's fall with celebrations throughout the city, as crowds gathered to relive the ecstatic scenes that heralded the demise of European communism.

Ben Vidricksen of Salina was part of an American delegation that had an up-close view of the changes.

The London News.Net Monday 9th November, 2009 A wall of ice melted in London Monday as part of celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

World leaders and partying Germans are descending on Berlin Nov. 9 to mark the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall was breached It is a day for celebrations and commemorations, for festivities and sober reflection.

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.

Theirs was a divided city, where east was east and west was west. Then one night, the spell was broken and the world changed.

Philip Hensher: But that was in another country... Sometimes, when I'm in Berlin, I seem to glimpse the ghost of a different city inhabiting these same streets.

Visiting leaders from across the European Union are expected to use the festivities surrounding the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall for informal talks over the appointment of the European Council president and EU foreign policy chief.

Poor Guenter Schabowski. He didn't know no better, as a friend of mine from the Ozarks used to say.

WALLS designed to keep people in or out a ' whether in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel, or Korea a ' are always the product of fear: East German leaders' fear of a mass exodus by their citizens seeking freedom and dignity; Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders' fear of continued war; Israelis' fear of terrorism; or the North Korean leadership's fear of ...

Affirmation of freedom: Giant dominos placed along the former border fall in a symbolic act in Berlin on Monday.