February 9, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Trabant":
Lifestyle: 23 Nov 11
Mercedes, BMW, Audi and VW – Germany is a nation of car nuts. The Local List counts down the country's most legendary rides.
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Society: 27 Oct 11
Fifty years ago on October 27, 1961, US and Soviet forces took the world to the brink of war at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie. Hannah Cleaver takes the temperature of the legendary Cold War flashpoint today.
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Society: 30 Sep 10
As Germany prepares on Sunday to mark the day East and West Germany merged into one nation after four decades of division, the programme "Weissensee" on ARD public television has become a runaway hit.
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National: 9 Nov 09
The fall of the Berlin Wall sparked celebration, but also chaos in both halves of the city. David Wroe speaks with former West Berlin Mayor Walter Momper about how dicey November 9, 1989 really was.
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Society: 11 Sep 09
On the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Hungarian border, Gerhard Meyer recalls how a black market sports car helped him be the first East German to cross into West Germany just hours after officials made the announcement.
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Society: 12 Aug 09
One of the most iconic products of communist East Germany, a little car called the Trabant, will make a comeback at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt this September. And this time it’s electric.
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Society: 19 Jul 09
U2 rocked Berlin on Saturday, returning to the German city where almost 20 years ago the Irish band came to reinvent themselves with "Achtung Baby," for many fans their best album.
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Society: 15 Jul 09
Even for East Germany's communist rulers, Chemnitz was only second choice when they were seeking a "model Socialist town" to rename as Karl Marx City in 1953.
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Society: 16 Jun 09
It was an iconic image of the heady days of 1989, an East German Trabant, leaving to explore the West for the first time. Twenty years later, the little cars that could are disappearing from German roads.
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Society: 29 Dec 08
In light of the upcoming 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall next year, the premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Wolfgang Böhmer, warned on Monday against adopting a rose-tinted view of communist East Germany.
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Lifestyle: 22 Aug 08
Berlin is plenty interesting above the ground, but that didn’t keep Brett Neely from doing some urban spelunking to check out the city’s numerous bunkers.
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