Irish Times Berlin correspondent Derek Scally begins a series today on the former German Democratic Republic.
He begins his travels in Wittenberge, which is in Brandenburg.
After the war the Singer factory in the town was nationalised by the State and renamed 'Veritas'.
On November 9 1989, 25 years ago this year, the Berlin Wall fell. More accurately 'was felled' by peaceful demonstrators.
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An interesting quote from Napoleon Bonaparte: “The honest man never doubts the existence of God’.
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This is a worrying story. It’s written by Conor Pope and appeared in The Irish Times on Monday. It becomes ever more worrying how large org...
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Former Dominican priest Tom Tom Brodie Brodie died in a nursing home in Galway yesterday. He had been ailing for some time. He was born in C...
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