Read more East Germany stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8866/east-germany.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 4:59:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73652/germany-celebrates-fall-of-the-wall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFireworks illuminated the rainy skies above Berlin as Germans and high-profile visitors came together today to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall exactly 20 years ago. President Obama unexpectedly joined the festivities—in a video greeting introduced by Hillary Clinton. "There could be no clearer rebuke of tyranny," he...http://www.newser.com/story/73652/germany-celebrates-fall-of-the-wall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 17:51:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73634/post-1989-germany-an-unexpected-success.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs “the exhaustive and perfectly blameless celebrations” of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall unfold, Anne Applebaum has a bone to pick. The festivities are “focusing on what didn’t happen rather than what did,” she writes, treating “the past two decades as a foregone conclusion.” But...http://www.newser.com/story/73634/post-1989-germany-an-unexpected-success.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 12:42:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73585/germany-hails-anniversary-of-berlin-walls-fall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHundreds of foam dominoes will fall today in Berlin, symbolizing the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has called Nov. 9, 1989, "the happiest day in recent German history," will lead the festivities. The guest...http://www.newser.com/story/73585/germany-hails-anniversary-of-berlin-walls-fall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 8:54:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71736/domino-wall-to-fall-on-berlin-anniversary.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwenty years after a domino effect of resistance toppled Communist regimes across Europe and brought down the Berlin Wall, the Germans are trying it again with actual dominoes. Volunteers have crafted almost 1,000 8-foot-tall Styrofoam dominoes and plan to assemble them along the path of the old Wall through...http://www.newser.com/story/71736/domino-wall-to-fall-on-berlin-anniversary.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 3:31:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69104/thatcher-urged-gorbachev-to-block-german-reunification.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMargaret Thatcher called on Mikhail Gorbachev to halt German reunification months before the Berlin Wall came down, newly unearthed Kremlin documents reveal. Thatcher—telling the Soviet leader he should disregard NATO pronouncements on the issue—said the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact wasn't in the interests of the West, the...http://www.newser.com/story/69104/thatcher-urged-gorbachev-to-block-german-reunification.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 2:06:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68677/beck-dons-gdr-getup-too-timid-to-do-nazi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGlenn Beck's decision to don an old East German army uniform for the cover of his latest book is as ridiculous as the paranoid rantings that no doubt lie within, Silbey writes at the Edge of the American West. It's not clear what statement Beck's trying to make, Silbey notes,...http://www.newser.com/story/68677/beck-dons-gdr-getup-too-timid-to-do-nazi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 05 Sep 2009 6:20:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67690/semenya-tests-reveal-triple-testosterone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPre-race World Championship blood tests on super South African runner Caster Semenya revealed testosterone levels three times typical female rates, a source tells the Telegraph . The results of the tests, carried out in South Africa, contributed to a decision by sports officials to call for "gender verification" tests on the...http://www.newser.com/story/67690/semenya-tests-reveal-triple-testosterone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 3:36:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67290/hungary-fetes-1989-picnic-that-led-to-fall-of-berlin-wall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHungary is celebrating the 20th anniversary today of its “Pan-European Picnic”: the day it opened its border with Austria, providing a pathway for hundreds of East Germans to exit Europe’s communist east. “The Soviet bloc was like an air balloon with over-pressure so it needed only a prick of the...http://www.newser.com/story/67290/hungary-fetes-1989-picnic-that-led-to-fall-of-berlin-wall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 13:14:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64598/20-years-later-berlin-starts-saving-wall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter many years of indifference, Berliners have started getting serious about saving what's left of the most famous symbol of the Cold War, Der Spiegel reports. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, locals viewed it as merely an unfortunate reminder of a bad past and little thought was given...http://www.newser.com/story/64598/20-years-later-berlin-starts-saving-wall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Jul 2009 1:46:15 CDT