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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

Berlin Wall

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (on screen) gets a standing ovation by the members of the government and of parliament after he addressed via videolink the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, on March 17, 2022 in Berlin. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
March 17, 2022, 1:23 pm
Zelensky tells German MPs ‘never again’ Holocaust slogan is now meaningless
Ukrainian president addresses Bundestag via video, says Europe being destroyed, urges tearing down a new ‘wall’ that Russia is building between ‘freedom and bondage’
By ToI Staff and AFP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel places a candle at the Berlin Wall Memorial during the central commemoration ceremony for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 2019 (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
November 9, 2019, 3:02 pm
On Berlin Wall anniversary, Merkel urges Europe to defend ‘democracy, freedom’
At ceremony to mark 1989 fall of the wall, German chancellor says values of human rights and tolerance ‘must be defended anew’ and cannot be taken for granted
By AFP
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Koerber Foundation in Berlin, Germany November 8, 2019. (Hannibal Hanschke/POOL/AFP)
November 8, 2019, 1:10 pm
Pompeo warns against Chinese, Russian clout on eve of Berlin Wall anniversary
‘We are in a competition of values with unfree nations,’ US secretary of state says in Germany, cites Western ‘responsibility to deter threats’ from such governments
By AFP
In this file photo taken on August 22, 2019 Jonas Rothe, founder and CEO of Timeride, a company offering virtual reality tours through a still-divided Berlin, poses next to Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
October 26, 2019, 3:21 pm
30 years later, Berlin Wall comes back to life with virtual reality
German startup offering visitors and history buffs an ‘authentic’ and immersive Cold War-era tour of the divided capital
By Deborah Cole
People light candles on November 8, 2018 at the site of a former synagogue in Schwerin as Germany marks the 80th anniversary of the 'Night of Broken Glass' (Kristallnacht) on November 9, 1938. (Bernd Wuestneck/dpa/AFP)
November 9, 2018, 9:53 pm
November 9: A fateful day in German history, four times over
From Kristallnacht to the Berlin Wall coming down, a series of defining events in 20th century Germany have occurred on this date
By AFP
A truck drives near the Mexico-US border fence, on the Mexican side, separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP/Christian Torres)
January 27, 2017, 10:50 pm
Berlin mayor to Trump: ‘Don’t build this wall!’
Michael Mueller compares wall that cut his city in half until 1990 and barrier US plans to build along Mexican border
By AFP
Former US president Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, at a luncheon in New Orleans in honor of her work to combat drug abuse, August 15, 1988. (AFP/Mike Sargent)
September 17, 2016, 8:09 pm
Now you too can own a piece of Reagan
Hundreds of items from 40th president’s possessions expected to fetch $2 million in New York sale next week
By Jennie Matthew
The head of a 19-meter high statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is on display at the permanent exhibition "Unveiled. Berlin and its Monuments" in Berlin's Spandau Citadel museum. (AFP/John MacDougall)
April 28, 2016, 7:45 pm
From bullet holes to Lenin’s head: Berlin lays bare its history
New exhibition features 100 rescued statues and monuments telling city’s story spanning royal rule, Nazism, Cold War
By Eloi Royer
Illustrative: Palestinian schoolchildren playing soccer around the security barrier in the West Bank (Flash 90)
September 3, 2015, 10:23 pm
German politician rues comparing Israel’s security fence to Berlin Wall
Green Party’s Uwe Kekeritz says he didn’t ‘minimize the brutality’ and the ‘oppression of the citizens of East Germany’
By JTA
Berlin Wall mural, originally painted in 1988 by Günther Schaefer as a reminder of the 40th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom in Nazi Germany. The mural features an Israeli flag superimposed on a German one. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Maartmeester, Flickr)
August 3, 2015, 4:37 pm
Anti-Semitic graffiti painted on mural on remnants of Berlin Wall
Vandalism and other anti-Semitic incidents believed to be connected to this week’s European Maccabi Games
By JTA
Illustrative image of Germans carrying flags during rally in Dresden, December 15, 2014. (AP/Jens Meyer)
December 15, 2014, 10:54 pm
German far-right grows as 15,000 march in Dresden
Anti-Islam protesters in eastern city decry ‘criminal asylum seekers’ and ‘Islamization’ of country
By AFP and ToI Staff
Balloons from the art project 'Lichtgrenze 2014' (lit. 'lightborder 2014') reflected in a puddle next to remains of the Berlin Wall at East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, November 7, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Steffi Loos)
November 9, 2014, 1:48 pm
Germany marks 25 years since Berlin Wall’s fall
Chancellor Angela Merkel to open museum at one of the few remaining sections of East-West concrete barrier
By AP
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