Miss Werner fled from Britain when Klaus Fuchs was arrested in 1950, and settled in East Berlin.
ECONOMIST: Ruth Werner, Soviet spy, died on July 7th, aged 93
On November 4 a million people gathered in East Berlin to demand freedom.
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After the announcement, thousands of people in East Berlin immediately flooded the checkpoints at the Berlin Wall, demanding entry into West Berlin.
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.
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.
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.
Once, while on a stopover in then East Berlin, he told me he'd visited the city's famed Alexanderplatz.
The exteriors of the buildings in former East Berlin are bleak and still smack of Communism, but inside, the buildings are so very hip.
Unfortunately one of their number was a retired diplomat, Andrew Fulton, who had spent time in Saigon and East 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In 1989, East Germans on foot and in cars began arriving in West Germany and West Berlin only hours after the East German government threw open its border to the West.
In 1992, former East German leader Erich Honecker arrived in Berlin to face manslaughter charges for deaths along the Berlin Wall.
She grew up under Communist rule in East Germany, back when Berlin was divided by the wall.
Famous worldwide for his panoramas, Asisi was born in Vienna in 1955 but grew up in East Germany and experienced divided Berlin first hand.
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.
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.
In July, after Obama toured the Middle East and Europe, and spoke in Berlin at a rally where two hundred thousand people came to cheer him, a McCain ad compared Obama to Paris Hilton.
In addition we should forcefully advocate the kind of intervention that ultimately brought down the Berlin Wall in 1989: East Germany's neighbors, particularly Czechoslovakia and Hungary, made it clear that East Germans could use their countries as transit points to get to West Germany.
The initial plan foresaw building a stately airport that would be financed by private investors and replace the city's two Cold War airports Tegel in former West Berlin and Schoenefeld in what was the communist east.
In 1971, a limited telephone service was re-established between East and West Berlin for the first time in 19 years.
Now, by becoming part of the city-state government in Berlin, which straddles east and west, the party is hoping to win acceptance at last as a normal part of Germany's body politic, rather than be dismissed as a regional oddity, doomed to fade away as east and west grow closer together.
From outside, a little of the ugly orange East Berlin street lighting filtered in, and the objects in the room seemed to quiver slightly.
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.
Even revolutionary actions that look spontaneous, like the demonstrations in East Germany that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, are, at core, strong-tie phenomena.
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