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...those could be taken as the date on which unification became inevitable. But the date that will be celebrated in the future Germany comes this week, Oct. 3, when the Freedom Bell in West Berlin's Schoneberg city hall tolls and the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany is raised in front of the 96-year-old Reichstag building. At that moment, the German Democratic Republic, a relic of Stalin's postwar empire, ceases to exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany And Now There Is One | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...moment his Christian Democratic Party's chances are rated as questionable. Since the tumultuous events leading up to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall began last August, Kohl has been attacked relentlessly for a flat-footed response to a historic moment. When he appeared on the steps of the Schoneberg town hall in Berlin on the night after the Wall was breached, millions of TV viewers saw a flustered and irate Kohl as he was heckled by an unfriendly crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Kohl Takes On Topic A | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...unforeseeable," said West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who interrupted a six-day official visit to Poland to fly to West Berlin for a celebration. "I have no doubt that unity will eventually be achieved. The wheel of history is turning faster now." At the square in front of the Schoneberg town hall, where John F. Kennedy had proclaimed in 1963 that "Ich bin ein Berliner," West Berlin Mayor Walter Momper declared, "The Germans are the happiest people in the world today." Willy Brandt, who had been mayor when the Wall went up and later, as federal Chancellor, launched a Bonn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Freedom! The Berlin Wall | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...crush of people at the city hall of Schoneberg borough stood peasant women and workers from as far as Thuringia, 125 miles away. In a rumble of gossip they waited for their packages. "Where is the food from?" a woman asked. "Vom West en," someone replied. "Von Eisenhower," another corrected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Eisenhower Parcels | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...want to get fat," his petite, redheaded wife explained.) At 8:15, he set a black beret on his unruly grey hair, picked up his cane and went out to his official car, a black Mercedes sedan. At 8:30, he arrived at the great, grey Rathaus Schoneberg and walked to his high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he started out on his null 6-hour day of reading reports, inspecting municipal installations, conferring with top German colleagues with such Allied officials as the U.S. Commander in Berlin, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, attending dinners or more conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Last Call for Europe | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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