This week’s front pages chart an abridged history of modern Germany, tracking a nation with thousands of East German refugees fleeing in the months before the fall of the Berlin Wall through to reunification and a stable democracy by the end of Helmut Kohl’s premiership in the late nineties. Elsewhere in the news, major international court cases take the final stand as both OJ Simpson and Amanda Knox secure controversial releases from custody following highly publicised murder trials. Read more in this week’s archive snapshot.