Germany's turn to give back

From the Albany Times Union

First published in print: Monday, November 9, 2009 

By Roy H. Ginsberg  

The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989.

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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