Freedom Without Wall News
Jun 8, 2012
| Germany.info
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!"
25th Anniversary
Aug 10, 2011
| Federal Foreign Office
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.
Recalling a Divided Germany
Jan 19, 2011
| Germany.info
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.
Stasi Archive
Jan 19, 2011
| Germany.info
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.
Stasi Exhibit
Oct 4, 2010
| REGIERUNGonline
Germany celebrated 20 years of unity during a weekend of festivities across the country culminating on October 3, the Day of German Unity.
German Unity