Thousands of Berlin Wall Documents Declassified

Historians: Docs reveal struggle and resolve of the human spirit for freedom

Daniel Wiser The Washington Free Beacon 1/14/2014

Thousands of newly declassified documents about the Berlin Wall reveal the struggle and resolve of the human spirit for freedom, archivists and historians said on Tuesday.

The National Archives’ National Declassification Center (NDC) has released 11,000 […]

Barack Obama bombs in Berlin: a weak, underwhelming address from a floundering president

Nile Gardiner The Telegraph [UK] 6/20/2013

…Barack Obama’s message on Wednesday was pure mush, another clichéd “citizens of the world” polemic with little substance. This was a speech big on platitudes and hopeless idealism, while containing much that was counter-productive for the world’s superpower. Ultimately it was little more than a laundry list of Obama’s […]

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President Ronald Reagan in front of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987.

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