November 10

20th Anniversary Of The Fall Of The Berlin Wall. Sites From Intute.Ac.Uk

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20 years after the wall: Die Spiegel International

This website was created by German newspaper Die Spiegel to provide coverage of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and communism in Europe. In addition to news stories, comment and analysis from journalists, it also offers photographs, interviews and eye witness accounts from Germans.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,k-7540,00.html

 

20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall: Public Sphere Formation

Public Sphere Formation is a special project of the Social Science Research Council. This special feature contains a collection of essays and articles from American academic researchers on the impact of the 1989 revolutions, the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of communism in Europe. The site also offers an annotated bibliography of key texts on post-socialist, post-communist transformations.
http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/20th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-wall/

 

Berlin Wall 20 years later: New York Times

This site was created by the New York Times to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. In addition to news stories, comment and analysis from the newspaper, it also provides free access to a selection of original NY times articles from 1989, photographs of events from readers, multimedia slides shows of the construction of the wall and its dismantling. These include eye witness accounts and comment. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. 
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/berlin_wall/in

November 02

Berlin Wall

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Berlin Wall: BBC archive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/berlinwall/index.shtml

This site provides free access to a collection of online archive films and recordings relating to the political history the Berlin Wall which have been taken from the BBC archives. They cover the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the wall in 1989. Materials include news films, documentaries and TV clips. Topics are the Berlin blockade, the Cold War, the fall of communism and the reunification of Germany. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website.                 From: Intute.ac.uk
October 21

Berlin Wall: Guardian Newspaper

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This site was created by the Guardian newspaper. It offers free access to news stories, comment and online films relating to the history of the Berlin Wall. Many of the materials commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in Eastern Germany in 1989. They include images of the destruction of the wall and eye witness oral history accounts. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/berlinwall
September 29

Angela Merkel: Augus Reid Global Monitor

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Angus Reid Global Scan is a component of Angus Reid Consultants an international partnership dedicated to exploring and understanding public opinion at the regional, national and global level. Since 2003 it has provided free access to public opinion polls and election tracking from nations worldwide. This section of the website contains polls relating to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. These cover assessments and perceptions of her performance since approximately 2004, voting intention trends and coverage of political parties and elections in Germany. Many of the entries are summaries of research reports; however each entry offers full bibliographic references and some detail on poll data methodology. They include examples of polls taken by German national newspapers and research companies. http://www.angus-reid.com/issue  From Intute.ac.uk
May 19

Deliberative Democracy In Practice: Germany And Britain

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Deliberative democracy in practice: the perspectives of practitioners in Germany and Britain
This site provides free access to a conference paper by Emmeline Cooper which was delivered at the 2009 Political Studies Association conference, Manchester, April 2009. The 22 page paper compares and contrasts the practice of deliberative democracy in two European countries, focusing on examples of projects in Britain and Germany. It suggests that while there is some common ground, country differences do exist. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2009/Cooper.pdf
December 04

Baader Meinhof Gang (Aka Red Army Faction)

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Rote Armee Fraktion - documents
This collection of over 1,500 digitised documents was produced by labour.history.net, part of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) in Amsterdam. The Rote Armee Fraktion was a left-wing urban guerilla group in West Germany, active from the 1970s until the 1990s. In its early stages, it was known as the Baader Meinhof group. It carried out several bomb attacks and various protests. As well as original documents, there is a a bibliography, a chronology of events, a list of the main RAF-related collections at archives and libraries, and a list of the Stammheim prisoners' library. The aim of the website is to present the documents in their original form, but to have a neutral stance towards the group's political views.
http://labourhistory.net/raf/index.php

Who were the Baader Meinhof Gang? (BBC)
This interesting page, from the BBC News website, explains who this notorious German group were. They were active in West Germany from the 1970s, carrying out a serious of actions which shocked German society. "Born from the radical student movement of that period, the RAF comprised mainly middle-class youngsters who saw themselves as fighting a West German capitalist establishment which they apparently believed was little more than a reincarnation of the Third Reich." There are links to related Web pages on Germany and the group's history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6314559.stm

Baader-Meinhof.com
This useful resource is produced by author Richard Huffman, who is an authority on the Baader-Meinhof group and has been interviewed by TV stations such as the BBC and CNN. He lived in Berlin during the early 1970s. There is a list of members of the group and who they were and a timeline of the main events involving the group. Some video footage is available, including interviews with the group's members. NB. Some materials are only in German. Also available are a glossary of terms relating to this period in West German history, You can find further links to other websites. The author does not support the group's political views.
http://www.baader-meinhof.com/

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