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German keeper Enke dies after being hit by express train
German football was in shock after it was confirmed that the national team goalkeeper Robert Enke was killed in an incident at a railway level crossing yesterday.
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The joy of freedom: twenty years on
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Berlin, "This is not just a day of celebration for Germany, it is a day of celebration for the whole of Europe."
Oxford-based 'guru' accused of torturing French aristocrats
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Arrest follows years of efforts to free family from grip of secret society
Dictator's wife defiant over forced adoptions
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Margot Honecker, a Communist-era minister now living in exile in Chile, left a cruel legacy of separated families
Sarkozy challenged over claims of smashing Wall
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
President Nicolas Sarkozy became embroiled in a bizarre verbal ping-pong match yesterday after he announced that he had personally helped to demolish the Berlin Wall on the first day of its fall 20 years ago.
In their own words: East Berliners on the Wall
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The Stasi man, the spin doctor, the dissident and teenager tell of the day when the Wall came down
The Fall of the Wall: 20 Years On
Monday, 9 November 2009
We know what happened in the years following the momentous events of 9 November 1989: the birth of a new Europe. But that week, fear mingled with hope – and The Independent's correspondents and photographers were there to capture the moment. In a special report, we present the first draft of history
World leaders in Berlin to mark fall of Wall
Monday, 9 November 2009
Chancellor Angela Merkel started the day with other leaders at a prayer service at a former East Berlin church.
PM's last-ditch appeal to Merkel for Blair EU presidency
Monday, 9 November 2009
Gordon Brown will make a last-ditch appeal today to Angela Merkel to rally behind Tony Blair as the first president of Europe.
A bridge opened – and then the Wall fell
Monday, 9 November 2009
1989: Europe's Revolution: On the 20th anniversary of Berlin's reunification, Tony Paterson remembers the place where the city's dividing lines began to dissolve
John Reid: The enduring implications of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Monday, 9 November 2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 1989, was one of history’s truly epochal moments. During what became a revolutionary wave sweeping across the former Eastern Bloc countries, the announcement by the then-East German Government that its citizens could visit West Germany set in train a series of events that led, ultimately, to the demise of the Soviet Union itself.
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