Freedom Without Wall News

"Mr. Gorbachev, Open This Gate ... Tear Down This Wall!" - The Speech Heard Round the World

Jun 8, 2012 | Germany.info
The Brandenburg Gate at the heart of the city behind the Berlin Wall. © picture-alliance/dpa

Twenty-five years ago, on June 12, 1987, US President Ronald Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate at the heart of Berlin and demanded that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev "Tear down this wall!"

50th Anniversary of the Construction of the Berlin Wall

Aug 10, 2011 | Federal Foreign Office
Brandenburger Tor mit Berliner Mauer

Fifty years ago the Berlin Wall was erected between East and West, dividing the country and the people. Countless lives were affected by the building of the Wall.

Coming to Terms With an Intrusive Past

Jan 19, 2011 | Germany.info
The Lives of Others © picture-alliance/dpa

At the end of the Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others, scriptwriter Georg Dreyman, who was monitored by the Stasi during the GDR era, sits in a reading room after German reunification and is shocked by what he reads in his own Stasi file.

New Stasi Exhibition Opens in Berlin

Jan 19, 2011 | Germany.info
Electronic gear

German President Christian Wulff inaugurated a new exhibition about the former East German secret police, also known as the 'Stasi', in Berlin on January 15.

The Sheer Diversity of Unified Germany

Oct 4, 2010 | REGIERUNGonline
German Unity - paper flags in Bremen

Germany celebrated 20 years of unity during a weekend of festivities across the country culminating on October 3, the Day of German Unity.