The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...

Thousands of East Berliners have relatives and friends in West Berlin and in West Germany, separated from them by the Wall and the barbed wire. In many cases mother is separated from son ...

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 ...

the German Democratic Republic began building a long and high wall at the border separating the east and west zones of Berlin — at the time, Germany’s largest city. The heavily guarded wall ...

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it.

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... He demanded that, as Berlin lay in East Germany, the Western powers should withdraw their troops from Berlin within six ...

August 13, 1961: In the early hours of the morning, construction of the Wall begins in Berlin. The Wall was a symbol of the Cold War that divided the world into East and West. In 1989, a peaceful ...

November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...

Experts and travelers say the museum gives context to what's left of the border crossing, and indeed you will find chilling stories of those who escaped from East to West via the Berlin Wall ...