Garrick Utley, the president of the Levin Institute of the State University of New York, and Rana Foroohar, senior editor of Newsweek’s international edition, join Daljit Dhaliwal to discuss the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and its lasting geopolitical implications. They discuss the history of Berlin and and analyze current U.S. - German relations.
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Week in Review
November 13, 2009
Week in Review: 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Interviews
November 9, 2009
Both sides remember the day the Berlin Wall fell down
As a reporter, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff hitch-hiked overnight to Berlin to cover the story. Daniel Fried was working at the Polish desk at the U.S. State Department when the wall came down. Sergey Shestakov was the chief of staff for the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations.
Signature Video
November 9, 2009
Berliners reminisce about the collapse of the wall
Twenty years later, the residents of Berlin celebrate the historic day that marked the beginning of the end of Communism. Virtually all Berliners remember where they were and what they were doing the day that the wall fell. Mike Kraus, a freelance video journalist, reports from Berlin.
Video
November 9, 2009
U.S. presidents seize political spotlight in symbolic Berlin
Berlin lies at the center of the German political imagination and was the focal point of the Iron Curtain that separated Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War. Berlin has also played host to some of America's greatest presidential speeches -- by JFK, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.
Interview
October 27, 2009
Muslims face increasing prejudice in xenophobic Europe
In light of the highly-publicized murder of a pregnant Egyptian woman in Germany, Daljit Dhaliwal discusses Muslim immigration in France, Germany and the United Kingdom with Delancey Gustin of the German Marshall Fund in the United States.
Video
October 2, 2009
Anne Frank gets her own YouTube channel
This week, the Anne Frank Museum officially launched its own channel on You Tube. The channel has begun showing the only known film footage of Anne Frank, taken during a neighbor's wedding in 1941 -- four years before her death in a German concentration camp.
How You See It
September 29, 2009
How You See It: Is the U.S. ready to elect a gay leader?
The man in position to be Germany's next vice chancellor -- Free Democrats Party leader Guido Westerwelle -- will become the first openly gay person to hold that office. Is the United States ready to elect an openly gay man or woman as vice president, or even president? Tell us what you think.
Interview (video)
September 28, 2009
Merkel wins second term in German election
Germany's vote on Sunday for members of the lower house of parliament gave Chancellor Angela Merkel a comfortable center-right majority. Nikolaus Piper of Suddeutsche Zeitung discusses the major issues and implications of the German election.
Video
September 28, 2009
German expatriates watch election from afar
Worldfocus producer Channtal Fleischfresser attended a German election party on Sunday at the German Consulate in New York.
Video
September 25, 2009
Economic concerns dominate ahead of German election
Economic concerns have dominated the debate leading up to Sunday's national elections in Germany. Polls show a tight race.
