“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 David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and politically by 168km (104 ...

Cultural and political changes in Germany at that time included a major East German protest in Berlin in late 1989 ... This was a result of a 1945 World War II peace agreement among the Allies ...

In 1962, they dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall and helped dozens of ... the Allies divided Germany in two in 1945, following World War II. West Germany turned into a capitalist democracy ...

Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

Alarmed by the building of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy sent his Vice-President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and US General, Lucius D Clay to Berlin. The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War ...

D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin, which was occupied by Soviet, American, British and French troops. There he documented the hardships of Berliners' daily lives.

Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary ... that are working well for the US. An unexpected WW2 experiment by behaviourist B F Skinner proved that pigeons ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...