As the Bible Predicted (And the Armstrong correctly taught) GERMANY reunited 30 years ago
Defend democracy and freedom!' Germany's Angela Merkel pins symbolic rose to remains of the Berlin Wall and issues emotional call as country marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Cold War relic
Angela Merkel has symbolically urged Europe to defend 'democracy' and 'freedom' as Germany is today marking 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell. She was seen laying a flower in a standing section of the wall at Bernauer Strasse. European leaders are attending ceremonies across Berlin recalling the peaceful protests that piled pressure on East Germany's government to allow its citizens free passage to the west on November 9 1989.
Blunder that brought down the Berlin Wall: Thirty years on, minute by minute account of the day border guards were caught ogling a waitress, a young Angela Merkel walked into history and a lazy apparatchik who triggered it all
On August 13, 1961, the government of East Germany gave the order to seal its border with West Berlin, Germany. The reason was too many of its citizens were leaving for West Germany.
Stunning 'then and now' photographs showcase Berlin's transformation on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall that divided the city for decades
Soviet-allied East German authorities built the wall in 1961 to stop a flood of defections to West Germany. Although numbers aren't confirmed, it is said that at least 138 people died trying to cross.