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An ex-East-German’s Warning to Americans…

Students today have never lived a day with a divided Germany. But most adults remember the images of East and West Germans celebrating the end to the Berlin Wall, as they took turns taking sledgehammers to the graffiti covered wall. Have we already forgotten? Do our kids even know? Are they taught about the evils

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Did the world forget about the Berlin Wall?

Published on July 5, 2010 by in history, socialism

As a 15 year old kid in high school, I can remember the elation the German people had as the Berlin Wall came crumbling down in 1989. There are few events in life that create the type of joy the world witnessed as East Germans and West Germans became Germans.  The shackles of Communism were

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Lessons from the past: Berlin Wall

When Joachim Fritsch was denied entrance, or even access, to higher paid education jobs or job promotions in general, little did he know it was at the hands of the Stasi, the East German secret police. Recently he was able to gain access to  the 400 page file the Stasi had on him. Joachim Fritsch

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