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Ignoring shouts from a watchtower, they thrashed across the 100-ft. span of water, cheered on by tourists at the Reichstag, Germany's prewar parliament, on the other side. Before Adryan could get across, a gray East German patrol boat churned up beside her, nicking her ankle. A guard on board aimed his gun. "Don't shoot!" she cried. "I have a baby in my stomach!" With that, Adryan and her friends lunged to the safety of the riverbank, where they were pulled out of the water by onlookers...
...turned up no evidence of fraud. Still, some details are unexpected. In an entry from 1929, Goebbels frets that "Hitler is too soft, he doesn't work enough," and is concerned that Germany's future leader may do "too much womanizing." Another entry suggests that the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 surprised Hitler's circle. Though Goebbels' account may be disingenuous, the passage is likely to fuel the continuing debate as to whether or not the arson ) was a Nazi ruse. Elsewhere, Goebbels dismisses Churchill as a "degenerate genius, therefore not too dangerous," and six days before Germany...
...days before Ronald Reagan made his speech near the Brandenburg Gate, a different set of Western emissaries did star turns in the same location. British Rock Star David Bowie, Eurythmics and Genesis performed on successive nights in front of the Reichstag building, home of the former German parliament, before more than 60,000 pop-music fans. Some 350 yards away on the other side of the Berlin Wall, crowds of young people clashed with East German riot police who prevented them from getting close enough to hear the music. When police chased them with nightsticks, angry rock fans pelted them...
...President? In the fall of 1973, Nixon faced a court order to surrender his tapes. Instead that day he fired his prosecutor, announced he was abolishing the Special Prosecutor's post, and sent F.B.I. agents to seal off Cox's office. "I'm going home to read about the Reichstag fire," cracked a bitter Cox aide...
...Soviet press also charged that the CIA had fabricated rumors of Soviet and Bulgarian involvement in the papal plot in order to undermine the Warsaw Pact. The "Bulgarian connection," a Soviet TV commentator noted, is like the Reichstag fire that was believed to have been set by Hitler's agents and blamed on Communists, thus helping to consolidate Nazi power. Said the Soviet newsman: "Half a century later, antisocialists are [again] preparing a war against the socialist community." A day later, Radio Moscow predicted confidently that Sergei Ivanov Antonov, one of the Bulgarians fingered by Agca, would be released...