member of Politburo of East Germany's communist party, and its spokesman, this member of the inner ruling circle of the workers and peasants state., just announced to few flabbergasted journalists the fall of Berlin Wall.. ..…
Recalling the United States’ key role in helping to bring down the hated Wall separating communist East Germany from the capitalist West, Steinmeier said he still hears the late American president Ronald Reagan’s cry of “tear down this wall” at the iconic Brandenburg Gate. . .....…
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. ..…
Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to West Germans danced atop Berlin Wall. 2012. ..…
You would think that the U.S. government would be thrilled to have a film broadcast to Americans showing the desperation and resolve to escape communist East Germany. ... West Berlin was a landlocked capitalist political enclave surrounded by communist East Germany. . ..…
The tunnel was built by a group of people who had escaped earlier from communist East Germany to West Berlin. ... (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) BERLIN (AP) — An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public on Thursday for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year..…
Because part of that city, Communist East Germany, was still occupied by American, French, and British forces, it amounted to in what was then called Iron Curtain, separating Soviet from Western Europe. ..…
The fact that they were fleeing from 'communist' East Germany (officially known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR), meant that they were useful to anti-communist politicians and journalists. . ... But political repression also existed in West Germany, where the..…
Instead of standing up for internationalism, both Marx and Engels in 1848 campaigned for the unification of Germany, publishing Communist Party of Germany pamphlet demanding that the whole of Germany shall be declared united, indivisible republic... ..…
Because part of that city, Communist East Germany, was still occupied by American, French, and British forces, it amounted to in what was then called Iron Curtain, separating Soviet from Western Europe. ..…
Because part of that city, Communist East Germany, was still occupied by American, French, and British forces, it amounted to in what was then called Iron Curtain, separating Soviet from Western Europe. ..…
Of the 35 delegates, only Bolsheviks represented revolutionary party and, of the foreign delegates, only Hugo Eberlein for Communist Party of Germany could claim to represent organisation, albeit small, persecuted one. ..…
BERLIN (AP) — Sigmund Jaehn, who became the first German in space at the height of the Cold War during the 1970s and was promoted as a hero by communist authorities in East Germany, has died. ... The East German government showcased his achievement as evidence of the communist..…
In our ignorance, we could not see that the Kaiser's Germany and Communist International were two aspects of Old World's against the new, American principle of liberty and human rights. ..…
Thuringia has history of being governed by left-wing coalitions going all the way back to the days of Weimar Republic of the 1920s when coalition of the Communist Party of Germany and Social Democrats was in place there. ..…
The latter, successor to East Germany's communist party, is petering out as the east's homegrown political force. ..…
According to Berlin, Poland, then a Soviet satellite, relinquished its claims for reparations to the former communist east Germany - the German Democratic Republic - in 1953. . ..…
SPD's most fertile ground Germany remains in the densely populated industrial regions of western Germany, particularly Ruhr North Rhine- Westphalia, of Hesse and Lower Saxony. . But with the founding of the Communist Party of Germany in 1919, SPD became the permanent home..…
For Borkenau, Marxist and Communist, Germany and USSR were both variants of the new type of totalitarian system born of the chaos and disruption of First World War. ..…
It is the successor of East Germany’s Communist party that presided over a decades long reign of terror. ..…
Eighty percent of women living in communist East Germany always reached orgasm during sex, according to the Hamburg magazine . ... The commitment to gender equality began early in communist East Germany. ..…
Here, medal produced for May Day 1934 Nazi Germany steals Communist Party's emblems of the hammer and in attempt to portray Hitler as the true friend of the working class. ..…
The Communist Party of Germany had been formed at the very end of December and was the strongest and most authoritative of the communist groups outside of Russia. ... The Communist Party of Germany was the strongest of the communist groups outside of..…
In Henwood notes one exception, namely United States during Great Depression, the birth of industrial unions, and the growth of Communist Party to about 80,000 members. In Germany, Social Democratic and Communist Parties had millions of supporters, and in the election of..…
Roth describes how Mattick oriented to the most radical sections of the movement — first Spartacus League's, Communist Party of Germany, and then splinter group, Communist Workers Party of Germany. ..…
But the gains came from cleaning up the filthy communist machinery in East Germany (at some cost) and later from reduced activity during the GFC. ..…
German CO2 emissions fell appreciably in the early 1990s, largely because of the implosion of Communist East Germany and its heavily polluting industry. ..…
German law aimed at crushing neo- Nazi propaganda also outlaws Klan's trademark burning cross, alongside white power symbols, ISIS flags, and symbols of Germany's Communist Party.. The raids on the group come German and author of book on Germany's Klan... ..…
Organisers said thousands turned out in memory of “Red Rosa” and prominent fellow leftist Karl Liebknecht at the Socialist Memorial in Berlin, built by the communist government of the former East Germany. . ... Two weeks before the pair were murdered they founded the Communist..…
Huneke found that during the Cold War era, communist East Germany had more lenient sodomy laws and accepted gay activists’ demands more quickly than its democratic twin. ... “But it actually had a lot to do with what was happening in East Germany, which was ruled by a..…
The violent rallies in Chemnitz, previously Karl-Marx-Stadt in communist East Germany, have been a thorn in Merkel’s political coalition since 2015 and weakened her authority. . ..…
He was always optimistic about what was in this great Nation--a view that carried him from communist-controlled Croatia via Germany to the United States, during testimony for Commerce Department role. . ..…
But Moore offers no insight into the emergence of Nazism, and in particular the roles performed by Social Democratic and Stalinist Communist parties Germany. ..…
Days Communist sympathizer named Marinus van Lubbe burned down Reichstag, German parliament building. Nazis were power, and Germany was still democracy — until they passed Enabling Act. ..…
His father was member of Communist Party of Germany, and Wolf escaped to Soviet Communist Moscow with his father, via Switzerland and France, because of their Communist connections, beliefs, and because Wolf's father was Jewish.. ..…
Pegida, born in a city that was part of communist East Germany until the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, has spawned copycat groups in western areas which have failed so far to attract similar crowds. ..…
About 1.4 million people were eligible to vote in the sparsely populated state on the Baltic Sea coast — an economically struggling region that was once part of communist East Germany. . ..…
Finally, keep in mind that Germany for National Socialists and Republicans, was the bastion against the Red Tide Hitler's anti-communist rhetoric echoes Ann Coulters. Only brainless dwarfs cannot realize that Germany has been the breakwater against Communist floods. ..…
BERLIN - Germany's troubled Christian Democratic Union nominated as its first female president a physicist who was raised in communist East Germany, breaking with tradition at a time of serious crisis in the party. . ..…
Kohl told the 1,000 delegates at CDU's pre-election conference Social Democrats would govern with the tacit support of the communist rulers of Germany. ..…
The East and West German governments, ment issued East Berlin and Bonn, said Honecker, East German and Communist Party secretary, will visit West Germany Sept 7-11 at the invitation of Chancellor Helmut Kohl... ..…
EAST GERMANY DROPS RULE ON DIPLOMATS` PASSPORTS. BERLIN -- Communist East Germany backed down from demands that diplomats show passports at boundaries between East and West Berlin and is issuing them new identity cards instead, Tuesday.. ..…