| 单词 | West Berlin |
| 例句 | Volker Oldenburg paints modern art in a potato cellar in West Berlin. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I sat cross-legged in West Berlin and drank. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z By morning, the small garrison of American and allied forces could only watch as all of West Berlin was sealed off. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He has not checked his mail in over a week, and among two flyers and a paycheck and a single utility bill is a small package from a veterans’ service organization located in West Berlin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Clay's announcement reflected simple geography: West Berlin floated like a tiny island in the sea of eastern Germany, a region completely controlled by the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Surrounded on all sides by the Red Army and by units of the KGB, West Berlin floated like an island in a hostile, turbulent sea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For four days in February 1962, Donovan shuttled between West Berlin and East Berlin, carrying messages between the two sides and carefully negotiating the terms of release. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Operation Gold began in the summer of 1954 with the construction of a drab-looking warehouse sitting just over the boundary separating East and West Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By the dozens, then hundreds, then thousands, they began to assemble at the border crossings between East and West Berlin on the evening of November 9. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Closing the border between East and West Berlin was not the idea of the KGB, the Soviet army, or anyone in the Kremlin: It was the brainchild of Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's hard-line communist leader. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Night after night, East Berliners surged into West Berlin, crowding its shops, restaurants, and cafés. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We had a million laughs in Hamburg and West Berlin and East Berlin and Vienna and Salzburg and Helsinki, and in Leningrad, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Each evening, when Donovan arrived back in West Berlin, he would dial a phone number and announce, "Jim D. is back." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Stations of the former West Berlin passed one after another. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Guillaume joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and eventually became a trusted aide to Willy Brandt—who was first the mayor of West Berlin and then rose to become chancellor of West Germany. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s especially moving, he says, to meet older Germans who were living in West Berlin at the time and either went to the speech or saw it on television. In this fascinating German museum on the Kennedys, we can all be Berliners 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The suite is his response to eight famous passages of political oratory, like Ronald Reagan’s “Tear down this wall” speech in West Berlin. Swinging the Vote: Jazz Inspired by the Presidential Race 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The action is transplanted from Freiburg to Berlin—to what was then a divided Berlin, with West Berlin isolated and surrounded by Soviet-controlled East Germany. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z My home base was the Wrangelkiez section of Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, which despite being in the southeast quadrant of the city, ended up in West Berlin when the city was divided. Where Berlin’s infamous wall once stood, humans and nature now flourish 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z In the early 1980s, a nascent film festival in West Berlin decided, as an act of political protest as much as aesthetic choice, to show movies from East Germany. At Berlin's Interfilm, a modern movie confab under history's shadow 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In West Berlin, he joined a group of similarly restless, avant-garde intellectuals who called themselves Group 47. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Of course, the most famous wall from Cold War times is the 96-mile-long barrier that was built in 1961, encircling West Berlin and making it an island of freedom in communist East Germany. In Europe’s border walls, a divided history and a united future 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Thousands of people escaped the harsh East German government by fleeing to West Berlin. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation After graduation, the boyfriend moved to West Germany to study arts management, and Savage joined him in West Berlin in 1989. How Dan Savage lost it 2013-05-25T19:00:00Z Brinkley mentioned how Truman presided over the end of World War II, racially integrated American troops, helped create the state of Israel and airlifted supplies into Soviet-blockaded West Berlin. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z He moved to West Berlin later that year. Review | Georg Baselitz is an overrated hack. Art collectors fell for him — but you don’t have to. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Like a fist poking through the Iron Curtain, the village of Klein Glienicke was an East German territory within West Berlin that was reachable only by a heavily patrolled footbridge. Heads Up: Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall 2011-05-27T18:55:11Z Last year, in an essay for the New York Times, Atwood recalled how she wrote “The Handmaid’s Tale” by hand in West Berlin. Margaret Atwood to publish sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z It surrounds West Berlin, but it doesn't have an identity of smells and tastes, only a historical identity, and my parents came out of this sea, as in a myth or a legend. The Carpetbagger: Forget the East-West Divide; It's Berlin Vs. Munich 2012-12-20T20:00:25Z “In fact, so did much of Pennsylvania,” he told Pittsburgh Quarterly in 2018, comparing his city, where voters favored Hillary Clinton, to West Berlin. The standoff between owners and journalists that’s eviscerating Pittsburgh’s biggest newspaper 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Bowie's albums "Low" and "Heroes" were made in West Berlin. Remembering 'Heroes': Berlin unveils plaque to David Bowie 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z We were in Berlin at the invitation of the D.A.A.D, an academic exchange group that brought foreign artists into West Berlin so that local artists would not feel so cut off. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z One of Germany’s 200,000 Jews, the 38-year-old lives in what used to be called West Berlin with her American husband Leo and three children. Religious groups condemn German circumcision ban 2012-07-24T13:32:00Z In one of the film’s most memorable moments, she throws herself against the walls of a metro underpass in West Berlin and convulses, with fluids oozing from every orifice. Andrzej Zulawski, Rebellious Film Director, Dies at 75 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Having left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1937, Mies was courted by West Berlin in the early 1960s to build something uplifting in the divided city. When a Star Architect Wants You Not to See His Work 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z But you know he's Munich and I'm Berlin, and between Munich andBerlin there's a bigger wall than between East and West Berlin. The Carpetbagger: Forget the East-West Divide; It's Berlin Vs. Munich 2012-12-20T20:00:25Z After designing two exhibitions for international fairs in West Berlin, he turned his attention to the Soviet Union, where, after his 1959 show, he organized exhibitions on plastics, transportation, medicine, technical books and graphic arts. Jack Masey, Whose Exhibitions Showed American Culture to World, Dies at 91 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z “There were rumors that the U.S. would step back its support and give up West Berlin to the Soviet Union,” he says. In this fascinating German museum on the Kennedys, we can all be Berliners 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z “It felt like we were crossing into West Berlin,” Mr. Ball said. They Fled the Coronavirus. Now They’re in Scenic Limbo. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z But, in West Berlin, in June of that year, he collapsed in a diabetic coma and never emerged. How Eric Dolphy Deepened My Love of Jazz 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But since West Berlin was such an unbelievably narrow-minded and stuffy city with unbelievably narrow-minded and stuffy West Berliners, it wasn’t so thrilling. Big Bang in Berlin 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z But in the company of the irrepressible Iggy and surrounded by the louche attractions of West Berlin, it was never going to be a monastic existence. Berlin exhibition tells story of Bowie's 'Heroes' years 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Going to East Berlin from West Berlin was like going from a technicolor life to black and white. Matthew Modine on America's love affair with guns & what people get wrong about "Full Metal Jacket" 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z He first left his native Hungary in 1987 for a fellowship in West Berlin. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s really less a case of “North and South Korea,” he says, than “East and West Berlin.” Books of The Times: A Writing Stone: Chapter and Verse 2010-10-25T18:28:00Z In 1953 they moved to East Berlin and crossed over to West Berlin on the subway. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z "The divide between East and West Berlin is still visible from the sky, 27 years after the wall fell," Laforet said. High-flying photographer Vincent Laforet captures the radiant world below him 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z That evening, passing through the armed guards and returning to the wall-encircled enclave of “free” West Berlin, we left our unspent marks at the border. In Berlin, the past and present collide on a mother-son trip 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z At the end of the war the Turbine Hall found itself in West Berlin, in the British sector, and the AEG was permitted to resume making turbines during the Cold War. 2010-01-19T18:11:00Z Among the notable venues for his performances were the White House under President Jimmy Carter and a series of concerts in East and West Berlin in 1988. Pianist Cecil Taylor, U.S. jazz innovator, dead at 89: media 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z My family and I were living in West Berlin, where I was beginning to write “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z My life in West Berlin already feels unreal. 'Jesus, Ralph, you're dangerous' | Rupert Thomson 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z Frequent historical displays and memorials give a vivid sense of how this infamous structure, which surrounded West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, affected both world history and Germans’ daily lives. Where Berlin’s infamous wall once stood, humans and nature now flourish 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z He served 20 years at Spandau Prison in West Berlin, where he surreptitiously wrote voluminous notes and managed to have them smuggled out. Gerald Gross, Who Published Memoirs of a Hitler Associate, Is Dead at 94 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Hough, 39, was born in West Berlin and brought up in the Family, founded by David Berg in 1968 in California and originally known as the Children of God. Work, pray, fear: my life in the Family cult 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z A recent retrospective run by Interfilm offered its own spin, combining shorts from the West Berlin days with those East German Super 8 movies into a single program. At Berlin's Interfilm, a modern movie confab under history's shadow 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In this artful spy novel, an American translator living and working in West Berlin shortly before the wall comes down finds the C.I.A. and West German intelligence on her doorstep one day. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The result, when it opens, will involve a secret tunnel escape, circa the early 1980s, from East Berlin to West Berlin. Escaping, Literally, in Budapest and Beyond 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Born in Hanover, Sander was also a veteran of the stage, becoming one of the top theatre actors in West Berlin and later in the reunified capital. German actor Otto Sander dies at 72 2013-09-12T16:09:32Z All Soviet attempts to extrude the United States from West Berlin after 1945 had failed. Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Cultural perspectives … East and West Berlin took very different approaches to theatre. National Theatre Wales in Japan: turning a 'why?' into a 'why not?' 2013-04-23T13:33:30Z After the Wall went up, just yards away, it sort of sat there, just an occasionally used West Berlin event and exhibit space. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain Bar25 was shuttered as part of the controversial Mediaspree project, a city initiative to develop property once part of the “death strip” between East and West Berlin. 36 Hours in Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z He studied painting and sculpture at what was the Academy of Art in West Berlin at the time, and for a few years played guitar in a rock band called the Ones. Edgar Froese, Leader of Tangerine Dream, Dies at 70 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Some, like the one that separated East and West Berlin, are designed to keep people in. This Wall Was Made for Walking 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z To give just two examples: Harry Truman defied Stalin’s blockade of West Berlin and Dwight Eisenhower ignored Khrushchev’s threats toward that same city. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z In just the past year, for instance, I’ve watched the neighborhood of sex shops and shoddy 1970s architecture around Zoo Station — once the main train station of West Berlin — undergo an ambitious redevelopment scheme. My Berlin: Reckoning With the Past 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z At Berlin's municipal museum, by comparison, a whole room is devoted to how cool and chic the Kurfurstendamm area of West Berlin was during the 1960s. Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z It also cut West Berlin off from the neighboring, largely rural state of Brandenburg. Where Berlin’s infamous wall once stood, humans and nature now flourish 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z West Berlin looked outside Germany for theatrical inspiration, and East Berlin looked outside of traditional dramaturgy, but they rarely looked at each other. National Theatre Wales in Japan: turning a 'why?' into a 'why not?' 2013-04-23T13:33:30Z President Ronald Reagan traveled to West Berlin and gave a speech calling on the Soviets to “tear down this wall.” The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago When Elizabeth sees her mother in West Berlin, her eyes are transformed into fathomless, dark wells spilling over with tears. 'The Americans' Season 3 Finale Recap: Enter Evil Empire 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The Berlin Wall, which divided the island of West Berlin from the communist East after it was built in 1961, was the most potent symbol of the Cold War. Berlin plans people's party to mark 25 years since fall of Wall 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z His family moved to West Berlin before the wall went up in 1961. Michael Schmidt, Photographic Storyteller, Dies at 68 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z A compact man in a buttoned-up, collared shirt was standing outside a faded but grand turn-of-the-century building in a neighborhood in West Berlin, looking rather confused. In Transit: A 'Secret' Berlin Cabaret for the 21st Century 2011-02-23T11:00:11Z You know, in the days of the infamous Wall, which cleft the occupied city in two and turned West Berlin into an island of freedom in a communist sea. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain A memorable preseason game took place in August 1990 when the Chiefs played the Los Angeles Rams at Olympic Stadium in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall fell and just before reunification. Chiefs want to be ‘world’s team’ by going global with star power and Super Bowl success 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z In August 1990, the Chiefs played a preseason game against the Los Angeles Rams at Olympic Stadium in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall fell and just before reunification. Berlin in the mix to host NFL game as league eyes future in Germany 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z A friend and I were traveling in Germany and decided to explore West Berlin — at that time an island of freedom in the middle of Communist-controlled East Germany. Freedom to vote: It's more than just a concept | Op-Ed 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Nowhere was the Cold War more proximate than in this walled city, as Soviet missiles in East Berlin threatened West Berlin. Review: Meredith Monk's '80s post-nuclear space opera is startlingly prescient 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The one direct confrontation between the two camps took place between May of 1948 and June of 1949, when the Soviets blockaded West Berlin. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Infuriated, the Soviet Union cut off all ground routes into West Berlin. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Members of the Remmo family originally came to West Berlin from Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s. German Court Convicts Five Men for Green Vault Jewel Heist 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Doenitz, who was only a head of state for a few months after the suicide of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, was convicted in 1946 and spent 10 years in a West Berlin jail. Factbox: A look at past state leaders who faced international justice 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Reagan declared war against international terrorism, sending American bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya was involved in an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub,” the outline said. Reagan’s foreign policy doctrine contrasted to Biden’s approach to global unrest 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z In the end, the Soviets abandoned the blockade, and West Berlin became a unique pocket of the western camp in the midst of communist East Germany. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1958 and again in 1961, Khrushchev demanded that Britain, France, and the United States leave West Berlin, demands that went unheeded. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Players didn’t want to sign for a club based in West Berlin, half of a divided city that was surrounded by communist-run East Germany. Man City case could join list of soccer’s biggest scandals 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The movement’s founding father is believed to be Wolfgang Ebel, a West Berlin railroad worker who was fired after taking part in a strike in the 1980s. German Plotters, Long Dismissed as Fringe, Got a Lift From QAnon 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Working with agents in Moscow and West Berlin, Ryan races to uncover the truth while KGB and Stasi assassins close in. 10 noteworthy books for December 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The 1968 student revolt that began in West Berlin spread across West Germany and altered the course of the country’s politics, literature and education systems. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Leading Light in German Letters, Dies at 93 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z While it stood, it provided a canvas for the people of West Berlin to record their whims and fantasies as well as political messages. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Political pressure for West Berlin to be represented in the Bundesliga led to woefully unprepared Tasmania Berlin being given a place just before the new season began. Man City case could join list of soccer’s biggest scandals 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z They soon won an award for designing Tegel Airport, one of the main gateways linking West Berlin, then an exclave of democratic West Germany deep inside Communist East Germany, with the rest of the world. German architect von Gerkan, who designed Berlin airport, dies at 87 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Starting in the 1980s, West Berlin began to create legally protected nature reserves in some of its Brachen. Pioneering urban ecology finds surprising biodiversity in Berlin’s green spaces 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z In Germany, residents of old West Berlin are dusting off coal- and wood-burning ovens that once served as insurance against the Russians targeting energy supplies during the Cold War. Coal stoves and wood thieves: Europe braces for winter without Russian gas 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z A major test of each nation’s resolve to defeat the other came with the Soviet Union’s blockade of West Berlin in 1948–1949. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z It culminated on 9 November 1989 when, following mass demonstrations, the citizens of East Germany, the most hard-line of the Soviet satellites, were allowed to cross freely into West Berlin. Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader who helped end Cold War 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union also feared the possibility of a unified West Berlin, located entirely within the Soviet sector. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The wall was erected in 1963 by East Germany to keep its citizens from defecting to West Berlin. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Eventually, he was freed in a dramatic exchange on a bridge shrouded with fog between East Germany and West Berlin. Here are some prisoner swaps that freed Americans. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z On October 22, a dispute erupted between the United States and the Soviet Union regarding the free passage of U.S. government employees between East and West Berlin. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z However, West Berlin, the historical German capital, hosted matches, and three cities near Tokyo were used. 2026 World Cup host cities are unveiled, but D.C. and Baltimore miss out 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, he called on General Secretary Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z She remembers the Soviet occupation and a visit to East Berlin in 1988, when she was 11, and her father told her to “breathe in the air of freedom” from West Berlin. Estonia’s Tough Voice on Ukraine Urges No Compromise With Putin 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z “We are in a sense a modern-day West Berlin.” Lithuania, a Vulnerable NATO Link, Readies for Putin 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z West Berlin was a small territory with direct air access. Arming Ukraine: 17,000 Anti-Tank Weapons in 6 Days and a Clandestine Cybercorps 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z No vehicles could pass through to West Berlin. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Within hours, people from both East and West Berlin flooded the checkpoints and began tearing down large chunks of the wall. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Stalin gambled that the Allies would surrender West Berlin or give up their idea of reunifying Germany. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The analogy with West Berlin, an outpost of Western democracy surrounded by Soviet-controlled Communist Germany during the Cold War, has become popular. Lithuania, a Vulnerable NATO Link, Readies for Putin 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The Berlin airlift, one of the most massive humanitarian aid missions ever undertaken, circumvented the Soviet blockade by delivering goods to West Berlin by plane. Gail Halvorsen, pilot who showered children with candy during Berlin airlift, dies at 101 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The Berlin Airlift kept the people of West Berlin supplied for nearly a year. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z West Berlin, the sector blockaded by Soviet forces at the start of the Cold War, suffered immensely before the airlift known as “Operation Vittles” began. Gail Halvorsen, Berlin Airlift’s ‘Candy Bomber’ and Mormon icon, dies at 101 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z But American and British officials flew food and supplies into West Berlin for nearly 11 months. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We feel like West Berlin in Cold War times,” Kasciunas said. West prepares to sharpen eastern defenses if Russia invades Ukraine 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z By the end of the airlift, pilots had dropped a reported 23 tons of candy over West Berlin. Gail Halvorsen, pilot who showered children with candy during Berlin airlift, dies at 101 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Britain and the United States were worried that the Soviet Union would take over West Berlin. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, one of the trickiest tram projects involves extending a line, called the M-10, across the historic Oberbaum bridge that linked the former East and West Berlin. Trams, Cable Cars, Electric Ferries: How Cities Are Rethinking Transit 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z In 1961, the East Germans built a wall to separate East and West Berlin. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Siegfried Uhse, a gay hairdresser, was originally from the East, but he lived in West Berlin. Review | A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z From June 1948 to May 1949, in one of the first major confrontations of the Cold War, Moscow blockaded West Berlin, blocking rail and road access to that part of the city. Gail Halvorsen, pilot who showered children with candy during Berlin airlift, dies at 101 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The U.S. and its allies started flying food, fuel, machinery, and other goods into West Berlin. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By comparison, the undertaking in Kabul does not exactly resemble the Berlin airlift, in which food was flown into West Berlin, rather than people being flown out. Eager to Shift Narrative, Biden Team Puts Airlift in Historical Context 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Supplies from American planes helped sustain more than 2 million people in besieged West Berlin for nearly a year. Airlines will help the Afghan evacuation through a post-WWII program. Here’s how it came to be. 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z We rushed back to West Berlin to file our stories. Perspective | As my Post career ends, I remember a historic night in Berlin and dining on birthday goat 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z He was making a delivery at Tempelhof airfield in West Berlin in July 1948 when he encountered a group of 30 children on the other side of a barbed wire divide. Gail Halvorsen, pilot who showered children with candy during Berlin airlift, dies at 101 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z That next game in at the Olympic Stadium in West Berlin finished 0-0, sending West Germany on its way to the title in Brussels. England and Germany to renew epic rivalry at Euro 2020 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z When the Soviet Union blocked food, electricity and other resources from reaching West Berlin by land, the United States and Britain took to the skies to carry in material by plane. Eager to Shift Narrative, Biden Team Puts Airlift in Historical Context 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z In Washington’s view, communism was suddenly threatening Greece and Turkey and, as menacing, it was cutting access into West Berlin. Review | An incomplete thesis on the cancellation of war 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z In 1986, two American servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident that prompted a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later. Today in History 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Army, Mr. Dederer joined the transportation corps as an officer and at one point was stationed in Germany, where, at 22, he was commanding officer of trains between East and West Berlin. Michael Dederer, founder of Rockey Group and Crystal Mountain, dies at 88 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The documentary alleged that Mr Masud had also been linked to a bombing at a disco in West Berlin in 1986, which killed three people. Lockerbie bombing: Alleged bomb-maker charged on 32nd anniversary of attack 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z And in 1948-49, the American-led Berlin airlift was a vital lifeline for a besieged city, with planes touching down around the clock, defying the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Watching U.S. presidential vote, much of the world sees a less-strong America 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Fragments of the wall remain dotted around the city, many of them decorated, as they were on the West Berlin side in the 28 years during which the city was divided, with political graffiti. Belarus opposition leader sees inspiration in fallen Berlin wall 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “In 1963, the American president JFK, in his famous speech ‘I’m a Berliner,’ clearly opposed communism and political oppression and supported the people of West Berlin,” Vystrcil said. Defying China’s wrath, Czech senator delivers Taiwan speech 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z In 1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organize the Berlin Airlift. Today in History 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Behind her, on the far end of the field, a banner in the blue-white color of West Berlin’s traditional soccer club fluttered in the afternoon breeze: “Youth is our future.” Giving Your Number to Strangers? It’s Not Flirting; It’s a Rule 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z “A lot has been said of West Berlin in the 1980s and all of it is true. It was like ground zero. The band is connected to this very special environment.” 'They'd greet us with fire extinguishers!': the wild times of Blixa Bargeld 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z “I see members of the army, it looks like West Berlin and East Berlin.” Italy’s Quarantine Leaves Locked-Down Towns Feeling ‘Sacrificed’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z For Pompeo, who referenced his formative experience as a soldier patrolling “freedom’s frontier” in West Berlin in the 1980s, there is no middle way. So the west is winning, is it? Only if you’re a delusional Trump toady, Mr Pompeo 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Reagan appears to have jeopardized the Crypto operation after Libya was implicated in the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin disco popular with American troops stationed in West Germany. ‘The intelligence coup of the century’: For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The West Berlin man was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later. Teen charged with murder in stabbing death of deli owner 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z He then served in the Army’s counterintelligence branch for several years in West Berlin. Neal Peirce, urban affairs columnist who championed inclusive cities, dies at 87 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Monochrome—like the mausoleum-gray former Berlin Wall, which kids in West Berlin glamorized with graffiti. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z He photographed East Germans shopping in West Berlin, border guards smiling and waving, children hawking pieces of the wall to tourists. The photographer who links US civil rights and Berlin Wall 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z On the night after the Berlin Wall fell, as I watched crowds of delirious East Germans surge down West Berlin’s broad Kurfürstendamm street, it didn’t occur to me that history was ending. Opinion | The politics of the 1930s are still playing out in Eastern Europe 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the East German government announcing that the border between communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin, demarcated by the Berlin Wall, was open. Fake 'Berlin Wall' dismantled by German soccer fans before match 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z At least 139 people were killed trying to escape to West Berlin and many who were captured in foiled attempts ended up serving long jail terms. Germany marks 30th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall, but post-Cold War gains are under threat 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The wall is pulled down as thousands of East Germans celebrate entering West Berlin. German leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall with warning about democracy 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Even though the 12-foot-high, 27-mile barrier splitting East and West Berlin would not be fully demolished for another two years, that date became known as the day the Berlin Wall fell. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z We went to West Berlin on 12 November. Watching the fall of the Berlin Wall: 'I downed almost an entire bottle of schnapps' 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the East German government announcing that the border between communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin, demarcated by the Berlin Wall, was open. German group sending Trump a Berlin Wall fragment on 30th anniversary of its fall 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z They show the first segments of the concrete barrier that had encircled West Berlin for 28 years being removed at night, amid a sea of camera flashes and applause. 'Witnesses of history': the man who kept slabs of the Berlin Wall 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The border between East and West Berlin is closed. German leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall with warning about democracy 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z When she was born in the 1960s, she was the only black child in her West Berlin school. Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z After studying in Vienna, I moved back to West Berlin in 1984 to be an actress. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z West Berlin became an island surrounded by communist East Germany. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z East and West Berlin were separated by the Berlin Wall from 1961-89. Berlin bans 'US soldiers' from Checkpoint Charlie 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z In 1987, David Bowie performed in West Berlin in front of the Reichstag as thousands of East Berliners tried to listen from the other side of the wall. How rock ’n' roll shook East Berlin's core — and the wall 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z One form of transport that vanished completely from West Berlin was the streetcar system. East-West divide has left its mark in Berlin, 30 years on 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z West Berlin was a wonderful place to live but it was always a problem for me to feel that the other part of the city was not free. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z This month marks 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the line of demarcation which split the former democratic West Berlin and what used to be the communist East. Berlin Wall's fall triggers memories from German nuns who nursed wounded after escape attempts 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z East Berliners were out and about in West Berlin, easy to spot thanks to their cars, their clothes, the way they inspected shop displays, the bananas and oranges in their shopping bags. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z In 1969, she said, thousands reacted to utterly false rumors that the Rolling Stones would be performing atop a West Berlin newspaper building next to the wall. How rock ’n' roll shook East Berlin's core — and the wall 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Turkish greengrocers are most likely to be found in the former West Berlin, while Vietnamese stores are a hallmark of the East. East-West divide has left its mark in Berlin, 30 years on 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z I grew up in West Berlin and, in the 1970s, we would drive across the border to visit my aunt and uncle. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The 77-year-old pauses to catch her breath, opens a gate and steps from the former democratic West Berlin into what used to be the communist East. Lutheran sisters recall nursing those wounded at Berlin Wall 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Her request had been granted: in two weeks she would be able to cross the wall to join Siggy in West Berlin. From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Afterward, they moved into an apartment on a tree-lined street in West Berlin. The Survival of Iggy Pop 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z I managed to cross into West Berlin using a smuggled Swiss passport. Experience: I tunnelled under the Berlin Wall 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z The Wall was indeed open, Berliners were beside themselves with excitement – the rest of the world as well – and there were no used cars or bananas left in the whole of West Berlin. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Synagogues in Germany have been under police protection since around 1969, when Marxist militants tried to bomb a Jewish community center in West Berlin. The New German Anti-Semitism 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z For Beier, this meant not being able to drive through the transit corridor to see his best friend in West Berlin. The schoolgirls who defied the Stasi: 'Someone said, 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z In the early years of his flying career, when the Iron Curtain divided Germany, Mr. Bacos flew between West Berlin and West Germany, according to Ynetnews. Michel Bacos, heroic French pilot of 1976 Entebbe hijacking, dies at 95 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z When I arrived in West Berlin, I had nothing but the clothes I was wearing. Experience: I tunnelled under the Berlin Wall 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Actually, there was also no West Berlin any more. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z This functioned as a deterrent in that its physical presence made it very real that any attack on West Berlin would also be an attack on the US. Don't let America turn North Korea into another Iraq | William M Arkin 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The DMZ visit reminded me of being in West Berlin in 1986. Reporter's Notebook: Kim looks to prosperous neighbors and contemplates a choice for North Korea's future 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The wall, guarded by soldiers on the East’s side, was a way to block the East Germans from fleeing communism to West Berlin and West Germany, a free and Democratic country. Ocasio-Cortez raises eyebrows after comparing Trump's border wall to Berlin Wall 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z However, King did not support using walls to divide people, as he stated in a speech to over 20,000 people during a visit to East and West Berlin in 1964. Hakeem Jeffries, a top House Democrat, calls Trump the "grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z It was 1982, and for four years I would commute every day from my flat in West Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Leo Ferdinand died nearly a decade ago, and Anna-Maria, who has shoulder-length blond hair and vivid blue eyes, lives in a cozy apartment in Charlottenburg, the Upper East Side of West Berlin. An Artist’s Life, Refracted in Film 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z That the checkpoint Harry Daniels set up separating West Berlin from East Berlin would become historically significant, much less an iconic artifact of the Cold War, never occurred to him. Vancouver, Wash., man gave Checkpoint Charlie its name as Berlin divided 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z My mother, a German, was born in West Berlin, that western enclave in the middle of the German Democratic Republic, a refuge for “alternative” people, punks and conscientious objectors. I live among the neo-Nazis in eastern Germany. And it’s terrifying | Anonymous 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Kreuzberg, which straddled the Berlin wall that divided East and West Berlin during the cold war, has traditionally been a bastion of the city’s underground and radical culture. Google abandons Berlin base after two years of resistance 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z I grew up in West Berlin and it never felt like the Wall was going anywhere. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Anna-Maria, on the other hand, had been active in the leftist student movement in West Berlin, and collected sophisticated people. An Artist’s Life, Refracted in Film 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z We go outside, to the demonstrations that are roiling West Berlin, this being the violent heyday of the Red Army Faction’s guerrilla campaign. The Confounding Sadness of Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z He went on to command American forces in what was then West Berlin. Holocaust survivor who became US Army major general has died 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z He went on to command American forces in what was then West Berlin. Holocaust survivor who became US Army major general has died 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z I grew up in a provincial town in Bavaria, so West Berlin felt like an island utopia to me. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Soon after that visit, the West Berlin police approached Kalin, demanding that he move off the land. 'My daring grandad grabbed a bit of East Berlin' 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z A 21-year-old law student at the time, working at a women’s center in West Berlin, she was nowhere near finished with the world. By Taking a Bullet, a Muslim Woman Finds Her Calling 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z This meant that West Berlin underground lines regularly crossed into Eastern territory as part of their daily routes. What the dismantling of the Berlin Wall can teach us as Trump tries to build his wall 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z To Dale Carr, an English shopkeeper who moved to West Berlin 40 years ago, a surge in Britons seeking German citizenship makes perfect sense even if it would have been difficult to imagine years ago. Britons living in Germany and elsewhere in Europe go for dual citizenship to guard against Brexit 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z We crossed into West Berlin in the morning. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The old brick wall in the city’s Pankow district was incorporated into communist East Germany’s original fortifications when the border with West Berlin was sealed in 1961. Newly discovered Berlin Wall segment to get protected status 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The brick wall was used as part of communist East Germany’s original fortifications when the border with West Berlin was sealed in 1961. Newly discovered Berlin Wall segment to get protected status 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The Handmaid’s Tale was written in 1984 in West Berlin – when else? where else? – to answer the question: if there was a totalitarian regime in the United States what kind of regime would it be? Margaret Atwood: ‘I am not a prophet. Science fiction is really about now’ 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z I found that city to be dour, gray and dingy, while just across the wall, West Berlin was, as Sinatra sang of Chicago, a “toddlin’ town.” Opinion | Trump’s most consequential accomplishment so far isn’t the tax bill 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The network provided money for an effort by students in West Berlin to connect two cellars on either side of the wall. Secret Tunnel in Berlin Is an Echo From the Cold War 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The newly discovered remnant of the original wall was transferred to the West Berlin district of Reinickendorf in 1988 in one of several minor modifications to the border during the Cold War. Newly discovered Berlin Wall segment to get protected status 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z They traded telegrams across the Atlantic and were married in West Berlin in 1953. John B. Anderson, fiery independent candidate in 1980 presidential race, dies at 95 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z That is beginning to change, as the former heart of West Berlin, an area now known as City West, begins to reclaim its traditional position as the German capital’s pre-eminent area for prime apartment living. City West: Berlin’s Latest Hotbed of Cool 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The paper is capable of making a mistake — what one isn’t? — but for it to purposely “FALSELY” misquote the president is as preposterous as Kurt insisting East Berlin outshone West Berlin. Opinion | Trump’s most consequential accomplishment so far isn’t the tax bill 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The site of the tunnel entrance that was recently found, for example, was not always in West Berlin. Secret Tunnel in Berlin Is an Echo From the Cold War 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Kennedy quickly concluded that any attack against the Soviet ally would paint the United States as “trigger happy” in the eyes of our allies and invite a Russian counterattack, striking West Berlin. Opinion | JFK could help us prevent nuclear war 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z All metal space-ship windows and swooping concrete ramps, the retro main terminal is a provincial West Berlin dream of a jet-set future. Germany's other vote: Airport row divides Berliners 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z The occupation of Berlin would also end and West Berlin would become an independent Free City within East Germany. President Trump, North Korea and a Brief History of Nuclear Threats 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The BBC arranged with the West Berlin post office to divert all the letters with this address to a private postbox. The German schoolboy jailed for writing to the BBC 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z An underground transit station was renamed for Karl Marx in 1946 — not in the Communist east but in West Berlin. Rewriting history or attending to the past? Monuments still confound Europe, too. 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The last time the three-week race started from Germany was in 1987, when the Grand Depart took place in West Berlin — when the city was still divided. After doping age, Tour start in Germany is a ‘Grand Return’ 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The story begins in West Berlin, with a visiting Israeli chorus performing before an appreciative German audience. In Avi Nesher's 'Past Life,' the bitter history of a Holocaust survivor is passed to his children 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Kennedy’s 1,036 days in office saw many crises, including the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the Soviet Union’s menace to West Berlin and, most dangerously, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. At JFK’s centennial, book chronicles presidency, day-by-day 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z These were delivered to the BBC's West Berlin office and then on to Bush House in London. The German schoolboy jailed for writing to the BBC 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z While living in West Berlin, Atwood visited Poland, where martial law had only recently been lifted; many dissidents were still in jail. Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z That it would be prominently visible from West Berlin was a bonus, demonstrating to all that the true center of the city was in the East. Letter of Recommendation: Berliner Fernsehturm 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Some two decades later Kennedy would address crowds in West Berlin as US president. JFK diary calls Hitler 'stuff of legends' - BBC News 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Based in what was West Berlin, Hertha never played in the Oberliga. Union Berlin raising city’s hopes of 2 teams in Bundesliga 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The son of a Tunisian cook who landed a job in the old French sector of West Berlin in the 1970s, Ben-Hatira is used to being “the other.” Why a German-born soccer star had to choose between his Muslim faith and his career 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z She started writing “The Handmaid’s Tale” on a clunky rented typewriter while on a fellowship in West Berlin, in 1984. Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z When Kennedy said, in West Berlin, “Ich bin ein Berliner,” millions behind the Iron Curtain knew that the United States was committed to their freedom. Why Trump’s “America First” Policy Is Doomed to Fail 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z After the war, it became one of West Berlin’s main landmarks, sitting at one end of the Kurfuerstendamm shopping boulevard. Defiance, not fear, as Berlin Christmas market reopens 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z In the summer of 1961, as more than 1,000 East Germans were escaping to West Berlin every day, the East German communist regime built the Berlin Wall to stem the exodus. Digging to freedom: tales of escape from behind the most famous wall in history 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The girl’s grandparents had been murdered in West Berlin in the 1970s and her mother disappeared in the early 2000s. Skating, espionage a dangerous mix in new locally made film 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Instead, he found 16, including the major West Berlin diggers. The Tunnels: JFK, the cold war and the Berlin Wall 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z "Walls are tied up with fantasies about what they can do," adds Steege, who says that daily interaction took place between people in East and West Berlin. The History of Walls Show They Are a Bad Idea 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But he lived in West Berlin, and Gross Glienicke was in the East. A house near Berlin that’s full of secrets of the past 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Yet East German citizens did not stop trying to escape to democratic West Berlin and West Germany. Digging to freedom: tales of escape from behind the most famous wall in history 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z You won’t find a single chain store within this midcentury complex turned “concept shopping mall” alongside the city zoo in West Berlin. The World’s Coolest, Most Cultured New Malls 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z I was in West Berlin the following morning; I went to Checkpoint Charlie, my usual crossing point into East Berlin, to catch the train back to Krakow. ‘I hopped up on the wall and got my sax out’: the fall of the Berlin Wall 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z During the post-war years, the implementation of the Gastarbeiter program brought nearly 3 million Turkish immigrants to Germany, many of whom settled in communities on the outskirts of West Berlin, Stuttgart and in the Ruhr. Welcome to the New German City 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The two friends would buy second-hand computers in West Berlin, such as Commodore Amiga 1000s, before driving six hours to the Polish capital, Warsaw. The teenager who smuggled computers through the Iron Curtain - BBC News 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The Berlin Wall snaked its way for 96 miles around West Berlin, separating it from East Berlin and the surrounding East German territory. Digging to freedom: tales of escape from behind the most famous wall in history 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The question used to be whether Americans would sacrifice Chicago to save West Berlin, he said. Russian Enclave Seen as a Fault Line of East-West Tensions 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z “The immediate threat to free men is in West Berlin,” he said. The Real Backyard Shelters That Came Before '10 Cloverfield Lane' 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The text frequently jumps back to Jed’s childhood and adolescence in Chicago, moves forward to West Berlin, and then back again to recall Jed’s parents and siblings. Novels of Desire 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate argued that Western capitalism was the best protector of freedom, and was backed up by the example that was West Berlin. Palin wasn’t “drunk” and her Trump speech wasn’t “stupid”: She’s playing right into the heart of twisted Republican politics 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The book vividly describes the harrowing conditions under which strong young men based in West Berlin dug the tunnels; some had fled the East and now wanted to help their loved ones left behind. Digging to freedom: tales of escape from behind the most famous wall in history 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z “Where people break down the dividing wall of hostility which separates them from their brothers,” he told a rally of 20,000 in the Waldbuhne Amphitheater in West Berlin, “Christ achieves his ministry of reconciliation.” WESLEY PRUDEN: Remembering Martin Luther King 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z He set up his property company 30 years ago in West Berlin, when the city was still divided, with just three employees. Can cool Berlin survive gentrification? - BBC News 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z The one element of his life that sparkles, at least intermittently, is that he has wangled his way into a job with West Berlin’s celebrity architect and theorist, the gaudily named N. I. Rosen-Montag. Novels of Desire 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Within months, Gary received orders to report to West Berlin. Ryan Seacrest’s Parents on Raising the Next Dick Clark 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z He was so passionate about taking his game to another level that he saved up money to train in West Berlin as a 15-year-old during his spring freshman semester. Trinidad 0-1 USA: Paul Caligiuri remembers his billion-dollar goal 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Influenced by New York, it was redirected through the streets of West Berlin in 1981. How New York City Made The Modern Marathon 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It tells how she was present at Warhol’s Factory and the Stonewall riots, before becoming part of punk rock scenes in the US and London, and West Berlin’s queer underground. Top 10 transgender books 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z In one, Hanks is the earnest, Jimmy Stewart-esque truth crusader; in the other, he’s in a comedic spy thriller, traversing East and West Berlin while ignoring exasperated, semi-incompetent CIA agents and wacky foreign contacts. Bridge of Spies review: Oscar bait season begins 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Twenty-somethings from around Europe and the globe have streamed into neighborhoods like Kreuzberg, for years a working-class West Berlin district with a heavy Turkish immigrant population. Tech Companies Flock to Berlin 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The city lost population during the years when East Berlin was under Communist rule and West Berlin was a western island in the Eastern Bloc. Berlin’s Housing Problems Boil Over 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z "One must live in West Berlin, as I've done for much of the past year, to realise fully its isolated and precarious position," Hadley wrote. The first FOOC - BBC News 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The result was a Cold War coup, the airlift of supplies directly into West Berlin. Berlin Airport Used in Cold War Airlift Gets a New Humanitarian Mission 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Bahr joined the Social Democratic Party and was hired as press secretary to Brandt, then serving as West Berlin mayor, in 1960. Egon Bahr, West German statesman who helped improve ties with East, dies at 93 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The installation occurred on the 54th anniversary of the closure of the border from East to West Berlin on August 13, 1961. A piece of the Berlin Wall comes to the State Department 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z In June 1948, the Soviet Union tried to control all of Berlin by cutting off traffic and railroad access to and from West Berlin. Historic aviation event prompts memories of Berlin Airlift 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z President Kennedy told a huge crowd that West Berlin was a symbol of freedom in a world threatened by the Cold War. Are Germany and the US still the best of friends? - BBC News 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Sometime from mid-1988, when a group of West Berlin art historians took photographs of them, to 1991, when the Soviets began their retreat from East Germany, the horses disappeared. Sleuth Work Leads to Discovery of Art Beloved by Hitler 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z I grew up in West Berlin during the Cold War years. Peter Walter’s Voyage From West Berlin to the Inner Workings of Cells 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Downtown, at the Brandenburg Gate that was on the dividing line between East and West Berlin during the Cold War, it is party time, with a capital 'P.' The Latest: Berlin, soccer's party capital for CL final 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Instead, two days after the blockade began, the United States began bringing supplies, including groceries and coal, to West Berlin. Historic aviation event prompts memories of Berlin Airlift 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Like a pendulum, it served the purposes of the fascist regime and then became a lifeline with the airlifts of 1948 and 1949 that delivered food to the people of West Berlin. Seven Leading Architects Defend the World's Most Hated Buildings 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z As Germany became West Germany and Berlin became West Berlin, the stadium underwent what its website now calls “a discreet denazification.” Champions League Final Is Just Latest Moment in Spotlight for Olympiastadion 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Army veteran who was stationed in what was then West Berlin from 1966 to 1968 at the height of the Cold War. Southern Indiana Legion post continues six-decade tradition 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z It appeared to grant permission for East Germans under Soviet control to cross into West Berlin. Harry Gilmore, diplomat, dies at 77 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Its unsparing account of life in the East forced Johnson to move to West Berlin for its publication. Uwe Johnson in Sheerness: Why did a major East German writer move to an English seaside town? 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Absorbed in what the city is forcing him to remember, Libeskind fails to notice that he is striding us through Checkpoint Charlie – the spot formerly marking the entrance from the Russian sector into West Berlin. Daniel Libeskind Interview: Childhood Bullies, Nazi Germany and the Jewish Museum He Built 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Among other charges, he was accused of having gazed at West Berlin through binoculars during a visit to East Germany years earlier. Rise of the Red Prince 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The West must also accept that Ukraine is today’s West Berlin: the frontline in the defense of Western values against Russian revanchism. Ukraine is today’s West Berlin 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z As U.S. minister in West Berlin, Mr. Gilmore was also the deputy commandant of the American sector. Harry Gilmore, diplomat, dies at 77 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z His mother and the rest of his family settled in West Berlin, where he studied art. Tangerine Dream's Froese dies at 70 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z They were there when the Berlin Wall went up between East and West Berlin. Conway artist says Arkansas’ beauty is a marvel 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z A few years later Mr. Baker moved to West Berlin, where he had a career as a singer — he recorded under the name Jean-Claude Rousseau — and opened a nightclub called the Pimm’s Club. Jean-Claude Baker Dies at 71; Restaurateur Honored a Chanteuse 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z It is his West Berlin — the taking of which was a matter of principle for Stalin and the successful protection of which ultimately reversed the spread of communism in Europe. Ukraine is today’s West Berlin 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Ken Goldin, owner of the West Berlin, New Jersey, auction house, said this week that two awards by the same actor rarely - if ever - become available together. Old Al Pacino Tony Award and Golden Globe go on auction 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Why it matters: In a speech delivered at the Berlin Wall President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the wall separating East and West Berlin. These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z In the film’s wintry 1962 moment, the airstrip was the U.S military and the main commercial field in what was then the American sector of West Berlin. Saving Pilot Powers: Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg Film a Cold-War Thriller in Berlin 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z East Berlin's inefficient industry - a heritage of communist times - had crumbled and West Berlin had experienced an exodus of companies that no longer enjoyed tax breaks granted while the Wall had isolated the city. Party over for Berlin mayor Wowereit 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z For several stretches, her train ran parallel to the Wall, the rooftops of West Berlin almost in reach. The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z In West Berlin, he visited his birthplace, but “it wasn’t there. There was a small modern apartment house. Ours was an old house. It was gone.” Newsweek's 1966 Profile of Mike Nichols: Director as Star Hess, Hitler’s former deputy, was buried in Wunsiedel after committing suicide at the age of 93 at Spandau prison in West Berlin in 1987. Video: Activists Turn Neo-Nazi March Into Anti-Nazi Fundraiser To say the least, the powers that be in Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei, as well as in Bonn, Frankfurt, and West Berlin, discreetly laughed at such epochal naïveté. Obama In China: Taking Candy From A Baby 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z It turned West Berlin into “an island in a Communist sea,” he says, and there was a lot of pressure on Germany to get rid of it. Where in the World Is the Berlin Wall? But the story didn't play out in West Berlin or Washington DC, but in an unassuming bungalow in the London suburb of Ruislip. The spies in a suburban bungalow 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The wall, built in 1961, was meant to halt the tide of defectors from the repressive and communist East Germany into West Berlin. Berlin Wall fall anniversary: Partying like it’s Nov. 9, 1989 At least 138 people were killed trying to escape to West Berlin and many who were captured ended up in jail. Berlin Wall's fall 25 years ago an epic blow to tyranny: Merkel 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z As the East Germans kept pouring through, the estimate by the West Berlin city government of a quarter-million Saturday visitors looked to be an understatement. Flashback: Human wave of East Germans surges across Berlin Wall 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z German officials talked about staging an historic Olympics in East and West Berlin to celebrate the end of the Cold War. Fall of Berlin Wall and hopes of sports superpower status 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z To The Hotel Detective, who first crossed from West Berlin to East in 1975 at Checkpoint Charlie, it’s the last great world historical event of the 20th century, the Waterloo of the Cold War. Berlin Wall 25th Anniversary: The Suite With The Best View Of The Brandenburg Gate 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z A chain of balloons, stretching for nine miles, will be lit and placed along the former border between East and West Berlin on Saturday night. Mikhail Gorbachev Warns Ukraine Conflict Could Lead to a New Cold War The Wall, which was established by East Germany in 1961 and was roughly 96 miles long, split the already-divided country’s capital into West Berlin and East Berlin. At Least 1 Million to Celebrate 25 Years Since Berlin Wall Fell 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z The bargain-hunting East Germans flooding the streets of West Berlin brought joy to shopkeepers and store managers - at least to some of them. Flashback: Human wave of East Germans surges across Berlin Wall 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Aided by the ladders, Mr. Vogt made it over the second wall, dropping down into West Berlin. On Berlin Wall Anniversary, Somber Notes Amid Revelry 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z On 9 November of that year East Germany opened its borders including the Wall, which separated East and West Berlin. Gorbachev warns of 'new Cold War' 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z President Ronald Reagan traveled to West Berlin and gave a speech calling on the Soviets to "tear down this wall." The Berlin Wall, which divided a city, fell 25 years ago 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z West Berlin was more modern, East Berlin was quieter, their economies were distinct — but Berliners from both sides still harbored hopes that they would one day be reunited. 9 Essential Berlin Wall Stories 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z A human wave of East Germans, a quarter of a million strong according to an official estimate, swept through the Berlin Wall on Saturday to pack the pavements of West Berlin 20-deep with sightseers. Flashback: Human wave of East Germans surges across Berlin Wall 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Axel’s daring — jumping on a cargo ship headed for West Berlin, being discovered, then plunging into the Spree and getting shot in view of people on the western bank — receded into history. On Berlin Wall Anniversary, Somber Notes Amid Revelry 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z “We were having huge problems with our machine production because so many of our employees were taking jobs in West Berlin,” he recalls. 'The Wall Coming Down on the 9th: That Was Not Supposed to Happen' Keeping West Berlin going last year cost West Germany 13 billion marks – close to 6 billion dollars or about 16 million dollars a day. Berlin: Where Rivalry of East, West Soars 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The spy who came in from the cold cannot beat an East German in West Berlin with a shopping bag. Zuckerman: Joy and Question Marks as the Berlin Wall Fell 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Soon, Germany split into a western democratic and an eastern communist state—and Berlin definitively into East and West Berlin. The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z After bidding farewell to Gudrun, Walther and her mother were interrogated by the secret services of the UK, France and the US, which controlled West Berlin. East Germany's trade in human beings 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Just like West Berlin, it was a highly subsidised social entity - both parts were propped up as showcases of their respective political systems. Berlin leaves divisions behind as Wall vanishes 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Says a recent university graduate: ''This West Berlin is a great place to get an education, but not to use it. Berlin: Where Rivalry of East, West Soars 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z “Some researchers argued that like West Berlin in those days, isolated and surrounded by a hostile East Germany, San Francisco was also an island,” Mr. Mayes wrote. Bernard Mayes, priest and founder of early suicide prevention hotline, dies at 85 On the left side, corresponding to West Berlin, the lights show up as grayish-blue compared to the amber-colored lights in the eastern part of the city. How East Germany Cleaned Up Dirty Power 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z This 96-mile border encircled democratic, capitalist West Berlin, separating it from communist East Berlin and the surrounding East German countryside. Five myths about the Berlin Wall Yet, the social, cultural and political differences between East and West Berlin are still detectable. Berlin leaves divisions behind as Wall vanishes 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z In fact, officials talk about doing more, not less, for West Berlin. Berlin: Where Rivalry of East, West Soars 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z At the time, Mr. Mayes wrote years later in a memoir, San Francisco and what was then West Berlin were afflicted by disturbingly high suicide rates. Bernard Mayes, priest and founder of early suicide prevention hotline, dies at 85 West Berlin remained an electrical island until the city installed interconnects in 1995. How East Germany Cleaned Up Dirty Power 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z When West Berlin became an escape hatch for disgruntled East Germans, the East German leader Walter Ulbricht wanted to close it down. Five myths about the Berlin Wall But these remarks were dramatic, moving and deftly constructed — at a time of high tensions between East and West Berlin and between Eastern and Western powers. Martin Luther King and the Berlin Wall West Berlin holds little promise for thousands of restless young Germans who remain here. Berlin: Where Rivalry of East, West Soars 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z In 1961, the East German government began building a wall around West Berlin. Mary Elise Sarotte Examines Berlin Wall Fall in 'The Collapse' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Army train in Frankfurt to travel overnight to West Berlin as part of a regularly scheduled U.S. military excursion through the Iron Curtain. Bending toward justice in the war against Islamic State Diggerland USA, in the Camden County community of West Berlin, is the first American outpost of Diggerland, a series of British theme parks. In New Jersey, Making Labor Day Less Laborious 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z “I am happy to bring you greetings from your Christian brothers and sisters of West Berlin,” he started. Martin Luther King and the Berlin Wall Beyond supporting the city government, West Germany underwrites West Berlin in other ways by providing tax concessions to firms and individuals and extending bargain-rate loans and outright grants to entice new business. Berlin: Where Rivalry of East, West Soars 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z “But the world of cold wars is one of blockades on the high seas, airlifts into West Berlin, secret intermediaries hand-carrying letters from the White House to the Kremlin.” Inside the Beltway: Everybody’s hot on the Cold War 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Truman understood that just because Americans were weary of war did not mean our adversaries were — and his actions secured the freedom of West Berlin. Obama’s not the anti-Bush, he’s the anti-Truman On the same day, Chile were held 1-1 by East Germany in West Berlin, and after a goalless draw with Australia in their final group match, the South Americans were also heading home. Today at the World Cup: Day seven 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z "The first time when I went to West Berlin, it was very colorful," Smital said. Pixel perfect: the story of eBoy 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z After he became Chancellor last fall, Helmut Kohl summoned top industrialists to a conference that proposed 17 new projects to assist West Berlin. Berlin: Where Rivalry of East, West Soars 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z In the autumn of 1977, a film crew transformed the working-class West Berlin neighborhood of Wedding into the Warsaw Ghetto. How Meryl Streep helped the Nazi hunters 2014-05-09T19:45:00Z Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes was eight when she and her dissident parents left Jena in the German Democratic Republic for West Berlin. The six key moments of the Cold War relived 2014-03-31T10:23:41Z The vibrant alternative culture which thrived in West Berlin remains in place in the united city. Berlin: The next Silicon Valley? 2014-03-30T23:10:56Z His earliest recollections of West Berlin involve wandering up and down the aisles of a supermarket, mesmerized by the labeling and packaging of all the products. Pixel perfect: the story of eBoy 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Bonn already pays handsomely to promote West Berlin as a conference center and tourist attraction. Berlin: Where Rivalry of East, West Soars 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z He was convicted at the 1945/46 Nuremberg military tribunals and spent 10 years in a West Berlin jail. Disgraced German ex-president on trial on corruption charges 2013-11-14T12:52:49Z It’s a site not just rich in meaning as the former dividing line between East and West Berlin but also in American history: It’s where Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” Is Obama Rooting for Merkel? 2013-09-20T08:35:27Z In 1981, the former chocolate factory where the hammam is located was a women's squat - apparently the first of its kind in West Berlin. My Germany: The Turkish bath manageress 2013-09-19T01:27:57Z For one thing, US planes were often flying low over some parts of East Germany at the time - delivering supplies to West Berlin. The great Cold War potato beetle battle 2013-09-03T00:30:43Z It's estimated 2,000 East German refugees were fleeing to West Berlin each day. 7 questions on GCSE history 2013-08-20T01:12:28Z The Berlin wall was built to stop people travelling between East and West Berlin and armed guards kept a close eye on it. Germany's chancellor turns teacher for the day 2013-08-13T15:26:00Z Already one person had been shot trying to flee from East to West Berlin. How JFK's Berlin speech gave a city hope 2013-06-25T00:17:28Z The 3.6-meter high Berlin Wall was a 160-km long concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin, leaving its 2 million citizens trapped in an island of democracy in the heart of communist East Berlin. Obama turns JFK's Berlin speech into new call for freedom 2013-06-19T16:19:58Z As Nato put in place plans to defend West Berlin - and if necessary to cross East German territory in order to relieve the encircled city - the threat of a full-scale war rose dramatically. Germany's most secret Soviet missile base 2012-10-25T23:45:06Z It's rather like how, before 1989, the US would show off the shining shop windows of capitalist West Berlin, to dark communist East Germany on the other side of the Wall. The Las Vegas of the Black Sea? 2012-09-29T23:10:45Z At his birthday party last month, dozens of friends and family gathered at an old West Berlin haunt for music and drinks and to share stories. The Saturday Profile: A German Playboy, With a Well-Kept, Earnest Past 2012-03-31T00:14:03Z West Berlin, made up of the city's American, British and French zones, was an island of capitalism in the communist Soviet sector of Germany, also known as the German Democratic Republic. How JFK's Berlin speech gave a city hope 2013-06-25T00:17:28Z In April 1986, Libyan agents working in the embassy in West Berlin were linked to the bombing of La Belle disco there, killing two American servicemen and a Turkish woman and wounding 200 people. Qaddafi Leaves Little Behind to Guide Libya in His Absence 2011-08-22T23:59:59Z Where: On a peaceful square in a civilized, residential part of West Berlin. Caviar, Oysters Nudge Out Sauerkraut: Dine & Deal in Berlin 2011-08-15T18:04:01Z Two of the five-strong cell were caught during the escape and executed but the other three reached West Berlin after a month-long manhunt involving thousands of East German police and soldiers. Czech anti-communist fighter Masin dies in U.S. 2011-08-13T14:04:10Z In fact, the 82-year-old would do just about anything to stay in the limelight he won through decades as a nightclub impresario and self-anointed playboy in swinging, cold war West Berlin. The Saturday Profile: A German Playboy, With a Well-Kept, Earnest Past 2012-03-31T00:14:03Z He spent four days in Germany but it's the visit to the island of West Berlin on 24 June 1963 which captivated the eyes of the world. How JFK's Berlin speech gave a city hope 2013-06-25T00:17:28Z On the morning of Aug. 13, 1961, Berliners awoke to find East German security forces building a security barrier of fences and barbed wire to seal off West Berlin. Berlin Wall Commemorated by Germany 50 Years After Building 2011-08-13T12:08:01Z Also present will be relatives of those killed trying to cross from East Berlin to West Berlin before the communist regime collapsed in 1989, leading to German reunification the following year. Berlin Wall Commemorated by Germany 50 Years After Construction 2011-08-13T05:33:06Z "TRYING TO FLEE" The Wall complex that split East and West Berlin as well as sealed off West Berlin from East Germany was between five and 500 meters wide. Berlin Wall Trail a surreal journey into city's past 2011-08-10T12:06:17Z Firstly, West Berlin attracted radicals because those who settled here were exempted from military service. Cultivating rebellion 2011-07-23T11:29:17Z At the Nuremberg trial, Hess was given a life sentence, which he served in Spandau Prison in what was West Berlin. Bones of Hess, Hitler Deputy, Are Moved From Grave 2011-07-21T17:44:53Z Now Lochner watched as an elderly woman timorously walked up to one of the transport policemen and inquired when the next train was due for West Berlin. Did J.F.K. Lose Berlin? 2011-06-10T16:36:26Z The main thing that touched off the incident was the bombing of the La Belle nightclub in West Berlin in April 1986. A history of Libya and blowback 2011-03-21T17:32:00Z It was Gaddafi, after all, who ordered the attack on the West Berlin disco that killed two U.S. servicemen and prompted the 1986 U.S. bombing known as operation El Dorado Canyon. How Much Blood on Gaddafi's Hands? 2011-02-23T22:04:07Z It bombed Tripoli and Libya's second city, Benghazi, in 1986 in retaliation for an attack on a West Berlin disco used by U.S. military personnel. Obama faces pressure to intervene in Libya 2011-02-23T03:07:19Z In July 1986, a National Security Council paper advocated steps to ease the division between East and West Berlin. The U.S. and Egypt: What Would Reagan Do? 2011-02-07T06:25:00Z Nevertheless, Kennedy had successfully communicated to Khrushchev that he was chiefly interested in preserving American military access routes and protecting West Berlin. Did J.F.K. Lose Berlin? 2011-06-10T16:36:26Z During the dregs of the Cold War, there was kind of a perfect storm -- East Germany and the communists were involved with the Libyans and they were bombing a nightclub in West Berlin. A history of Libya and blowback 2011-03-21T17:32:00Z Pia Wedel, 34, who grew up in West Berlin, opposed closing Tempelhof Airport, but supports the new airport. Berlin?s Airport: Shining Beacon or Waste of Money 2010-03-09T01:40:00Z "The West Side and the East Side are like East Berlin and West Berlin in terms of the rigidity of lifestyle," he says. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s The people of West Berlin remain both free and secure. State of the Union Address Kempe concludes that Kennedy’s facing down of the Soviets over Cuba and his triumphant visit to West Berlin in 1963 represented a U-turn. Did J.F.K. Lose Berlin? 2011-06-10T16:36:26Z Despite constant threats to its integrity, West Berlin has remained free. State of the Union Address Erected in August, 1961, the wall divided East and West Berlin. The Civilization of Illiteracy And we have maintained the frontiers of freedom from Viet-Nam to West Berlin. State of the Union Address They are beginning to realize that the longing for independence is the same the world over, whether it is the independence of West Berlin or Viet-Nam. State of the Union Address |
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