Read more Berlin Wall stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8867/berlin-wall.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:14:03 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73673/sarko-lied-about-berlin-wall-memories.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy rushed to Berlin 20 years ago to begin chipping away at the Berlin Wall just hours before it fell, he recalls on his Facebook page. There's just one small problem: it never happened, say critics. The French media have been chipping away at Sarkozy's claim, uncovering...http://www.newser.com/story/73673/sarko-lied-about-berlin-wall-memories.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 3:27:10 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/73354/u2s-berlin-show-walled-off.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOutraged Berliners are complaining that building a new wall in the heart of their city is a less-than-ideal way of marking 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down. U2 will play a free concert in Berlin tonight as part of the weeklong anniversary celebrations, but organizer MTV has erected...http://www.newser.com/story/73354/u2s-berlin-show-walled-off.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 7:06:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72060/shame-on-obama-for-skipping-berlin-festivities.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSkipping the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall is a bad choice by President Obama, Rick Richman writes, for several reasons: It’s a snub of a personal invitation from German Chancellor Angela Merkel—a key ally and one going all out for the festivities. It’s a chance...http://www.newser.com/story/72060/shame-on-obama-for-skipping-berlin-festivities.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 19:41:12 CDThttp://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/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 CDT