“Without Helmut Kohl, the lives of millions of people who lived behind the [Berlin] wall until 1990 would have taken a completely different course, including mine,” said Dr Merkel, who grew up ...

Helmut Kohl, Architect Of Germany's Reunification, Dies At 87 : The Two-Way The longtime German chancellor, who led West Germany and later a unified country, died Friday.

Helmut Kohl, the long-serving former chancellor whose life in the political limelight spanned the joyous zenith of German reunification and the shattering nadir of a corruption scandal, died ...

Helmut Kohl, the West German political leader who became an unlikely international statesman when he helped unite communist East Germany with the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and ...

Helmut Kohl; Helmut Kohl. 3 minute read. GEORGE H.W. BUSH. October 24, 2006 12:00 AM EDT. I nIn 1946 — as time extended its reach overseas, and the despotic dreams of Hitler, Mussolini and ...

German statesman Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification after the end of the Cold War, has died, his Christian Democratic Union party announced Friday. He was 87.

Helmut Kohl, the giant of post-War German politics and the architect of German reunification will have only an EU flag draped over his casket at a ceremony in Strasbourg where world leaders will ...

All this changed in 1989, when the East German regime began to crumble and the Berlin Wall came down. Helmut Kohl, in his own words, "grabbed the mantle of history." He was the driving force behind ...

Fri., June 16, 2017 The May 16, 2014, photo shows former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall in Kohl’s garden in Oggersheim near Ludwigshafen, southwestern Germany.