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The Berlin Wall: a victim of bananas - Feature
Hamburg - On Thursday evening, November 9, 1989, West German public TV stations signed off the air at about midnight, as usual. Residents of Hamburg, a mere 50 kilometres from the East German border, went to bed, dreaming of little than the next work...
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2009-10-20 ] Category : [
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Tracing the Peaceful Revolution in eastern Germany
Leipzig, Germany - Sabine Gugutschkow is a tour guide in her home city of Leipzig in eastern Germany. In many cases, it is schoolchildren whom she takes to the original locations where Leipzig's Peaceful Revolution took place in 1989 - the demonstrat...
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2009-10-20 ] Category : [
Culture (General) ]
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School to apologize for Nazi behavior at war museum
Wellington - Several New Zealand secondary school students who kissed a swastika and made Nazi salutes at the country's Auckland war museum are to apologize Tuesday (NZT) for their actions. The five boys from the public school Auckland Grammar were a...
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2009-10-20 ] Category : [
Culture (General) ]
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Merkel opens Berlin museum after 11 years renovation work
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Friday Berlin's historic Neues Museum (New Museum) seven decades after it was virtually reduced to rubble by World War II air raids and following 11 years of restoration. The makeover of the 1855 buildi...
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2009-10-16 ] Category : [
Culture (General) ]
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