The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification ...
Former dissidents, released secret service files and a zine in an East Berlin basement reveal a little-known chapter of Cold ...
Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that ...
Due to an influx of creative types from all over the world, Berlin has become one of the hottest spots on the planet. The ...
Socialist classicism gave out to glass and steel as I arrived at Potsdamer Platz. Once the beating heart of a pre-war Berlin, ...
Today, after decades of being nearly devoured by persistent “wall-peckers,” little remains of the grandest souvenir of Cold ...
In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist ...
Hannah Fiedler, an 18-year-old high school graduate from Berlin, said the fact that her family lived in East Germany during ...
Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...
- East Berliners get helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall, which divided the city since the end of ...
What began as confusion soon turned to celebration as Berliners from both east and west flooded the streets, chipping away at ...