Berlin is a palimpsest of old guilt and new hope ... never recognized East Germany as a nation, nor the wall as a legal border. Eastern maps of Berlin depicted the city beyond the wall as a ...

The central part of the wall that divided West Berlin and East Berlin was 43 km, or 27 miles long. Intelligence reports and maps included ... canal witnessed 24-year-old Gunter Litfin’s death ...

At the Bornholmer checkpoint, a 45-year-old West Berlin man in ... for freedom'' that may give the Berlin Wall ''very little relevance'' on the new political map of Europe.

The picture is stark: the former route of the Berlin Wall divides the city into voting choices. In the constituencies of the East, voters chose Die Linke (The Left party), descended from the old ...

The event transformed the map of Europe ... uses a hammer and chisel on the defunct Berlin Wall to take symbolic swings at the old Cold War barrier, three years after he called the Soviets ...