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Rick Steves’ Europe: Finding Medieval Charm in Germany’s Erfurt
Erfurt is the town where Martin Luther became a monk.
October 22, 2024
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Rick Steves
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How I Became a Soviet Spy and Escaped My KGB Handlers: Jack Barsky
Jack Barsky is a former KGB sleeper agent. Born in East Germany in 1949, he was recruited by ...
July 23, 2024
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Germany's Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, has said that China's communist regime is continuing to act more aggressively internationally ...
April 19, 2023
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Film Review: ‘Balloon’: A Harrowing, yet Family-Friendly, and Educational Thriller
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February 27, 2020
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Ian Kane
30 Years After Collapse of Berlin Wall, Polish ‘Solidarity’ Co-founder Has Strong Warning to the Free World
Nov. 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to the unification ...
November 9, 2019
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Travels in Thuringia
Kneeling next to him, I see the creature is almost three feet tall, and his eyes seem to ...
October 9, 2019
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Janna Graber
Film Review: ‘Karl Marx City’
Michael Tucker often serves as the director of photography on the documentaries he co-directs with his wife and ...
March 1, 2017
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Joe Bendel
Germany Begins Ambitious Resurrection of Iconic Palace in the Heart of Berlin
Sixty years after the East German communist regime leveled the Berlin City Palace—once an icon of Germany—the 15th ...
July 3, 2012
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Christian Watjen
Trash Bags Reveal Stasi Spy Secrets
The reconstructed contents of 500 trash bags offer new insights into the extent of spying activities by the ...
February 13, 2012
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Christian Watjen
TIMELINES: The construction of what Cold War icon began on August 13, 1961?
The construction of what Cold War icon began on August 13, 1961?
August 13, 2011
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The Power of Remembrance
Before the reunification, about one-third of the East German population were monitored, arrested, detained and tortured.
October 9, 2008
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Thilo Gehrke
The GDR System: Two lives, One Political System (Part II of II)
Horst Pfeiffer, born in1956, was a production worker in the Cottbus textile factory. He frequently questioned the operational ...
August 22, 2008
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