That Kennan lived near a town called East Berlin is not a cosmic joke.
On Saturday, I swam against the stream and travelled to East Berlin, to meet relatives.
Miss Werner fled from Britain when Klaus Fuchs was arrested in 1950, and settled in East Berlin.
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Once, while on a stopover in then East Berlin, he told me he'd visited the city's famed Alexanderplatz.
On November 4 a million people gathered in East Berlin to demand freedom.
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Unfortunately one of their number was a retired diplomat, Andrew Fulton, who had spent time in Saigon and East Berlin.
After the wall fell a second wave ensued, lured by east Berlin's vacant housing and a breakdown of police authority.
After the announcement, thousands of people in East Berlin immediately flooded the checkpoints at the Berlin Wall, demanding entry into West Berlin.
The CIA also discovered that Nidal had businesses in Warsaw, East Berlin and other important European cities that generated funds for his terrorist organization.
The exteriors of the buildings in former East Berlin are bleak and still smack of Communism, but inside, the buildings are so very hip.
From outside, a little of the ugly orange East Berlin street lighting filtered in, and the objects in the room seemed to quiver slightly.
The device was discovered by Heidestrasse, a lightly populated street with an industrial feel in the former "no man's land" between East Berlin and West Berlin.
In Heinersdorf, a poor area of east Berlin, there was uproar when Ahmaddiya Muslims from Pakistan, a group which mainstream Islam eschews, set up a mosque.
The latest device was found on Heidestrasse, a lightly populated street with an industrial feel in the former "no man's land" between East Berlin and West Berlin.
"I'm going to keep working after I retire, if nothing else for the health care, " said Nadine Krieger, 58, a food plant worker from East Berlin, Pa.
In the mid-1990s, an early Ostalgie-retailer, mondosarts.com, fought plans to reshape him to comply with European Union standards, winning him a reprieve in east Berlin and the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
And at the end of the museum there is a reconstruction of the secret tunnel built by British and American secret services to spy on the Soviet military headquarters in East Berlin.
After all, an important source of official succour disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet empire for most international revolutionaries could be sure of a warm welcome in Moscow, East Berlin or Sofia.
Questions like those are at the heart of a new book by Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian of Eastern Europe, describing a nine-month stay during 1980 in what was then East Berlin.
Despite the sacking of its headquarters in East Berlin and assurances that the organization would not be resuscitated until after the April elections, there is ample reason to be suspicious of the actual status of the Stasi.
For a taste of life in the former East Berlin marvel at the imposing buildings that line Karl-Marx-Allee or visit the DDR Museum (Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 1) for a hands-on experience of the minutiae of daily life in the GDR.
The East Berlin regime was propped up not only by its ubiquitous secret police and a huge network of informers, but also by a monolithic control of the media and repressive capabilities ranging from the subtle to the brutal.
Situated in what used to be East Berlin, when the city was divided by the wall, the building stretches over 1250sq m (13, 455sq ft) and houses a theatre, cinema, restaurant, as well as a maze of galleries and workshop areas.
Formanek had been in Berlin off and on about a month, going back and forth between East and West, sneaking past grim-faced border guards, covering demonstrations in East Berlin and then going back to the West to send the television stories.
Stefan is the son of a cast-off diplomat who is sacked from the East German foreign service for a minor misdemeanour just as the Vogel family was about to be posted to New York and escape the dreariness of East Berlin.
In 1965, three young members of Mossad Rachel (Jessica Chastain), David (Sam Worthington), and Stephan (Marton Csokas) are sent under cover to East Berlin, to track down a doctor named Vogel (Jesper Christensen), formerly known as the Surgeon of Birkenau, and fly him back to Israel.
Some even think that Germany (which has moved its capital east to Berlin) will in future want to cosy up to the new EU members to its east and south, in particular Poland and that this will inevitably weaken its relations with France.
There are all those millions of Chinese who claim to be governed by the ideas of Karl Marx, a Rhinelander Jew who got his education in the Western classics and who never went east of Berlin in his life.
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