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 ...

Welcome to another edition of 'This Day in History.' Today, we explore some of the most significant events that have shaped ...

Graffiti artists add a fresh design to a nearby portion of the wall left standing in the name of history. Cyclists and pedestrians alike turn off Berlin’s well-known thoroughfare Danziger Street ...

For 28 years from, 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall was the epitome - the defining image - of the cold war. I was in Berlin in December 1989, staying with friends and taking a cold chisel to part of ...

Genz, Carolin Pohl, Lucas Dobrusskin, Janina and Helbrecht, Ilse 2023. Geopolitical Caesuras as Time-Space-Anchors of Ontological (In)security: The Case of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Geopolitics, ...

BERLIN — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events ...

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between the Americans and the Soviets.

The Wall stood from 1961 to 1989. It was meant to stop Germans from fleeing the communist East to the more prosperous West ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist ...

The embodiment of the Germany that benefited so much from the open, liberal world after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, ...

It looks quite superb on screen – the fashions, the cars, the music – it’s all evocative of a torrid time in world history. The acting is universally exceptional. Barbara Auer, who plays Margot, is ...

If rails can become trails, why not borders?' asks Joe Baur as he explores the trail which grew from the scar of an infamous, ...