There was a growing contrast between life in the West and life in the East. In West Berlin and West Germany, the economy recovered well. Rebuilding and economic aid from the USA (Marshall Aid ...
As a result, the people living in the western sectors of Germany and Berlin became much better off than those living in the Soviet sectors. The introduction of the Marshall Plan in 1948 made this ...
A t Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, where U.S. and Soviet tanks once faced off at point-blank range, Communist border guards last week erected Christmas trees. It was as paradoxical a symbol ...
Rates of drug use, prostitution, and HIV infection have risen in the area since the crisis began. In central Berlin: “Barbie: The Dreamhouse Experience,” a life-size canvas dollhouse with a ...
And when the crisis came, it did. Without the fall of the Berlin wall, West Germany may not have ever consented to the EMU (or the eurozone). The project would have got underway much later ...
Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. BERLIN, Nov. 3. -- The continued disturbances in America finally broke down the nonchalance of the ...
It was a shocking moment that highlighted the issue of people smuggling and the desperation of those caught up in the crisis. Jenny Hill, Berlin correspondent: Angela Merkel, like all of us ...