REUTERS Wearing nothing but a pair of traditional German Lederhosen pants, she was seen throwing a Nazi salute after spraypainting a giant black swastika on a section of the former Berlin Wall ...

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

“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 ...

Berlin was also split four ways even though it was in the Soviet zone, with the famous Berlin Wall signifying the divide. Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected the ...

Did you know Central New York holds pieces of the Berlin Wall? Discover where these Cold War relics are hidden and their ...

Border troops of the Army - the Grenztruppen were formed to protect the inner border with Western Germany, Poland and ...

According to the Berlin Wall Foundation, there were 140 deaths at the Wall, with at least 90 at the hands of GDR border soldiers. In the face of former soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev's ...

With new clubs and record labels, artists began using run-down empty buildings, many of them in the heart of the city, right next to the former Berlin Wall. One generation later, Berlin is no longer ...

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.

By the 1990s, the Berlin Wall had fallen and Hadeln’s historic ... From 2001 to 2019, Dieter Kosslick, a former film critic and CEO of the North Rhine Westphalia film fund, served as a colorful ...