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Remembering the furniture vans moving from Bonn to Berlin
On this day, June 20, 1919 the German parliament (Der Bundestag) voted to move the seat of parliament from Bonn to Berlin. Today the former ...
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In the current edition of the Irish Catholic David Quin writes about the controversy happening between US Catholic politicians and the US hi...
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The story below is from The Irish Times of yesterday. The article is written by Arthur Beesley. On face value this is a shocking story and i...
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A week down. I am 'working' here as a chaplain in a Caritas-run hospital in Berlin Hermsdorf. The stories, the faces, the smiles...
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That could have been also a story from the GDR propaganda bureau!
"In 1973, the SED officially banned the public from watching West German television. Unofficially, however, it was tolerated -- so East Germans with televisions were able to learn everything their leaders kept them in ignorance of, from the country's chronic pollution to the dilapidated state of its cities."
https://www.dw.com/en/west-german-tv-the-class-enemy-in-the-front-room/a-3804892
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