In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may ...

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet ... some frantic messages from people who were down at the wall saying, 'You've got to come ...

German bonds are on track to see their worst day since the months that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall as a spending plan to use €500B to boost growth and increase defense and infrastructure ...

Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled ... Bricks were ...

(Bloomberg) -- German bonds suffered their worst day since the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall on an historic spending plan that will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

Anyone who has reported from the region since the fall of the Berlin Wall has heard their own stories of young people whose parents unearthed their Jewishness, bequeathing to their children a ...

“The first wall to fall was pushed over in 1980 in the Polish shipyards. Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the ...

When Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

The history of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its fall in 1989. A powerful symbol of the Cold War.

Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most momentous geopolitical events of the 20th century. Germany was ...