Buckley said in his last-ever public speech that The Lives of Others, about life in East Germany under communist domination, should be required viewing in every American high school. ..…
Born after the Berlin Wall was built and the inter-German border was closed, they both grew up in communist East Germany. ... Indeed, just one generation ago in East Germany and elsewhere in the communist world, there was no freedom. . ..…
When the Berlin wall fell 30 years ago, on November 9 1989, it marked the end of a 40-year divide between Germany’s communist East and the free market system of the West. ... The Berlin Wall separated Communist-controlled East Germany from West Berlin. ..…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a prayer in the Chapel of Reconciliation for the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial site along Bernauer street in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2019. The fall of the Berlin Wall led to the..…
Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to West Germans danced atop Berlin Wall. 2012. ..…