In Berlin, hope for the fall of other walls
By James Carroll | Monday, July 28, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…’Let us remember this history,’ Barack Obama said in the peroration of his speech in Berlin last week, ‘and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again.’ The progression in that sequence is exactly right. Remaking the world requires a reckoning with history, and Berlin, perhaps more than any other city, is the place where that must happen. On the eve of World War I, 94 years ago today, Berlin was the site of Germany’s last antiwar demonstration, routed by police. The failure of Weimar, the torchlight parades of brown shirts, Kristallnacht, the Fuehrer bunker, mass rape, the occupation zones, the death strip, the Wall – ‘this history.’ Nikita Khrushchev declared, ‘Berlin is the testicles of the West . . . When I want to make the West scream, I squeeze on Berlin.’….”…BS
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