Miss Werner fled from Britain when Klaus Fuchs was arrested in 1950, and settled in East Berlin.
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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.
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.
Unfortunately one of their number was a retired diplomat, Andrew Fulton, who had spent time in Saigon and East Berlin.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and East and West Germany were finally united in 1990, millions tuned in each night to coverage that spanned nearly a year.
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You might argue that this was Berlin and Berlin was, of course, partly in East Germany.
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.
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.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Berlin today for a meeting of would-be Middle East peacemakers to discuss how to deal with Palestinian's new unity government.
It would be a shame to leave Berlin without investigating the phenomenon of Ostalgie -- nostalgia for life in the old East Germany.
"I wish to emphasize that, as a Berlin-based company, we are just as interested in the preservation of the East Side Gallery as a historical monument as are Berliners and people in the entire world, " he said.
Since she went into politics after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, she has seen off four political bosses, in the east and west, and is the only prominent Ossi to have survived the entire decade near the top of the Christian Democratic tree.
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