Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story ...

The idea of wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin was born back in 1971 -- in the middle of the Cold War. At the time, the Reichstag stood right next to the Berlin Wall. It was a symbolic building, but ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist government of East Germany announced that all residents would be permitted to travel to West Berlin and West Germany. Crowds of Eastern and Western Germans climbed ...

The wall caused a sudden labor shortage in both halves of the city when it was erected in 1961, and invited substitute workers poured in. (West Berlin drew from Turkey and other Mediterranean ...

Thirty years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped Berlin's Reichstag building in silver foil, the German capital is paying tribute to the spectacular art event with a light installation.

At the Berlin wall, where the West’s guns now faced Communist armor, the risk of serious incident was already great. In the fierce tension, there was the ever present danger that a single ...

Germany marks 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with ... Replica placards from the 1989 protests will be on display along 4 kilometers of the wall's route, past the historic Reichstag building ...

On April 25, Berlin was encircled. Hitler killed himself in his bunker on April 30; and on May 2, the commander of German military forces in Berlin, Gen. Helmuth Weidling, capitulated to Soviet ...

Mixed media collage with raised silver thermal paper - an actual piece of the wrapping. This limited edition signed mixed media print features the raised silver thermal paper/fabric used to wrap the ...

The idea of wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin was born back in 1971 — in the middle of the Cold War. At the time, the Reichstag stood right next to the Berlin Wall . It was a symbolic building ...

Graffiti left by Soviet troops at the Reichstag has been preserved at several places in the building. The military surrender of Berlin on May 2, 1945, wasn't quite the end of the war.