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Checkpoint Charlie

A Divisive Cold War Museum In Berlin

Reuters | Posted 10.28.2012 | Travel
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By Sophie Duvernoy BERLIN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, differences over how to represe...

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Many Believed Killed In Attempt To Escape East Germany Still Alive

Reuters | Posted 10.13.2012 | World
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By Chris Cottrell BERLIN, Aug 13 (Reuters) - For 31 years, Rene Seiptius had been counted among the thousands of people killed while t...

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Berlin's 'Palace Of Tears' Reopens As Museum

Posted 11.15.2011 | Travel
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The Berlin passport and customs office known during the Cold War as the “Palace of Tears” was reopened this week by Chancellor Angela Merkel as a ...

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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Chris Weigant

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

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