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Joachim Fest. April 1945, a nation awaits its... – tagline I will win in Berlin, or face my downfall. In a war as such this, there are no civilians. [Believing...

moments, each a breakdown of sorts. It was born amid the collapse of the Berlin Wall, in 1989. The end, or really the beginning of the end, was another...

treasure stacked away in the British Museum; and there are comparable if somewhat smaller collections of African art in Paris, Berlin, and New York. Those...

that the wheels of the State coach are not creaking to-day in Moscow, in Berlin, in Vienna? Are you quite certain that they are not creaking even in the...

four-zoned Berlin that, moreover, was later to become their Achille’s heel? And what kind of military or political purpose did they see in giving away hundreds...

fleeting or eternal — is in neither case the stuff that life is made of. A Berlin Chronicle (1932–, unfinished), in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings – vol...

Switzerland [Dada in Zurich] and bedding down on a vulcano, as we did in Berlin. Richard Huelsenbeck, in his later memories on Dada; as quoted in Looking...

& Vasti Roodt, eds.: Nietzsche, Power and Politics (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2008) Circumcision, was prescribed for male children and the removal of...

receive, and should have to carry out, an order from Berlin to drive them back.” “Then fetch the King away,” I said. He replied: “There will be no great difficulty...

treasure stacked away in the British Museum; and there are comparable if somewhat smaller collections of African art in Paris, Berlin, and New York. Those...

November 2009) The [Berlin] wall can disappear when those conditions that created it fall away. As quoted in "A Gorbachev Hint for Berlin Wall" (16 June 1989)...

threatened the freedom of all is in jeopardy. Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected...

Let me ask you this: Would you feel more comfortable opening the Ark in Berlin for your Führer? Finding out, only then, if the sacred pieces of the Covenant...

pianist and conductor based in Berlin. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister"...

Allied bombers devastated Germany; many ordinary Germans, especially in Berlin, took to calling him "Meier" and air raid sirens "Meier's Trumpets". It...

shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. "Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939) If I fear anything, I fear the atmosphere of the...

and civic leader; winner of 4 Gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany; he used the name Jesse beginning in childhood, when he gave his...

The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism. Joseph E. Stiglitz Interview with Nathan Gardels...

from Berlin, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph (8 July 1941); published in The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41 (1975) p. 890 Wealth often takes away chances...

coming now, I'm coming to reward them First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. "First We Take Manhattan" (written in 1986) - Leonard Cohen video - Jennifer...