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Story Archives of 'berlin wall'
Berlin Walls of the 21st Century
By Jen Nathan on Monday, November 9, 2009.
The Berlin wall crumbled twenty years ago today, but that doesn’t mean that physical barriers between opposing regions and countries have gone the way of the dodo. Foreign Policy magazine released its list of the Berlin walls of the 21st century.
East-West Couples
By Hardy Graupner on Monday, November 9, 2009.
German newspapers and magazines are teeming with articles charging that the political and cultural divides between East and West Germany still exist two decades after reunification. Many people still don’t perceive themselves as being part of a single society. For others, these psychological barriers no longer exist.
The Berlin Wall Comes to L.A.
By Jen Nathan on Thursday, November 5, 2009.
The Berlin Wall is making its Los Angeles debut this month. The Wende Museum installed several segments of the original Berlin Wall on Wilshire Boulevard in L.A. They asked artists to paint over a few of the panels with American icons who helped tear down the wall that divided Germany. Artist Kent Twitchell planned to paint two portraits, one of JFK and the other of Ronald Reagan.
Building the Berlin Wall: 45 Years Later
By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, August 15, 2006.Forty five years ago this week, a one hundred and three mile long wall was built in Germany, splitting the capitol city of Berlin into East and West and creating an impassable no man's land. Topped with barbwire, surrounded by boobytraps, mines and armed guards, the wall was meant to stop the steady flow of skilled workers leaving East Berlin for West Germany and prevent an economic collapse in not only post World War II Germany, but also the occupying Soviet Union, who was subsidizing their economy. We'll look at what led up to the creation of the wall, the impact it had not only on Germany, but Europe and the United States and how people feel about it today, long after it was torn down. Laura's guest is Dr. Jackson Janes, Executive Director of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Janes previously taught in Germany and has been engaged in German-American affairs for three decades, including serving as the Director of the German-American Institute in Tübingen, Germany. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
