Germany's turn to give back
Germany's turn to give back
From the Albany Times Union
First published in print: Monday, November 9, 2009
By Roy H. Ginsberg
Twenty years after its fall on Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall still evokes a variety
of painful images. Berliners and the world remember those killed trying to escape
and loved ones kept apart after 1961 when the communists erected the wall to preserve
their failing system. It pays to recall that no one ever tried to escape from freedom
in West Berlin to tyranny in East Berlin.
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