Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...
The 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this month received little attention ... but for some, the ...
After growing up in the Communist-controlled police state of East Germany, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of Germany for ...
Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...
The Berlin Wall divided Germany for almost 30 years. It tore families apart and destroyed lives. Both the construction and the fall of the Wall were key moments in German history -- and beyond.
Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled shortly after ... the past as history weary Berlin is contemporized. Construction projects are ubiquitous as old, weird ...
Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now 1,800km of walls and fences either built or under construction on Europe’s borders. That is the equivalent of almost 12 new ...
Behind the dancers is a West Berlin building covered in scaffolding, a reminder that the post-Wall reinvention took place in both parts of the formerly divided city. 'Tacheles was the showpiece of ...
Germany marks 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities ... on display along 4 kilometers of the wall's route, past the historic Reichstag building and the famous Checkpoint Charlie.