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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.

BOOTLEG FILES 310: 'The Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel' . LAST SEEN: Available on numerous online video sites.

Right outside Austria's north-western border, barely in German territory, at the very feet of the northern rim of the Alps, lie the small towns of Fuessen and Schwangau .

Deutsche Bahn's near-monopoly over long-distance passenger rail traffic is under threat from new competitors.

There it was, the seemingly impossible - " the Berlin Wall falling as East Germans, intoxicated by the promise of freedom, scaled its once-forbidding face.

This week I was in Germany of tech-ed Europe 2009. I reached Berlin on 9th Morning and headed straight to Messe, Berlin location of the event.

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.

November 09, 2009 7:48 pm ET - 10 Comments Members of the conservative media, including Fox News, are attacking President Obama for not attending the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. The East German nation, for 28 years hidden from the world's eyes behind almost impassable walls, suddenly opened up.

The speech U.S. President Reagan delivered that day, standing at the base of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, all within earshot of East German sharpshooters guarding the sinister ribbon of the Berlin Wall, is considered by many experts to have affirmed the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the fall of communism.

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.

As part of Saturday Nov. 14's "Toast to the Troops" event, Mercedes Benz of Arrowhead is offering a Black Forest-Alps Rally Package to one lucky winner.

San Francisco International Airport announced Tuesday that despite sagging air travel around the nation it has added Air Berlin as its newest carrier.

By Ernest Gill, Hamburg, Nov 8: On Thursday evening, Nov 9, 1989, West German public TV stations signed off the air at about midnight, as usual.

Germans are celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall that divided the city and served as the symbol of a Europe divided between communist East and democratic West.

In November 1989, thousands of East Berliners cross through an opening in the wall, traveling freely to the West for the first time since 1961.

Faculty members of the University of Northern Colorado will convene for a panel discussion concerning the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I met Angelika Wachs for only a few minutes of my life. But what moments they were.

Britons banking on pre-Christmas shopping bargains should head for the former Eastern Bloc countries, it has been revealed.

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 ...