Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between the Americans ... to stem the ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.

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 ...

From techno temples to hedonistic hideouts, anything-goes revelry has been core to Berlin's soul for the past century. But rising rents and rapid gentrification may kill the party.

The German army's battle-readiness is less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, military officials, lawmakers and ...

Pigments used to paint murals on the Berlin Wall have been identified ... The vibrant street art daubed on the Cold War landmark that divided Germany are historic expression of people’s opinions.

East German citizens climb the Berlin wall at ... flee communist East Germany, ahead of a giant festival to celebrate the peaceful revolution that ended Europe's Cold War division on November ...

the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete wall, complete with ...

Raymond D'Addario was 26 years old when the U.S. Army assigned him to photograph the Nuremberg War Trials from 1945 to 1946. D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin ...

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for ... optimistic reactions to the end of the Cold War era. What exists today forms the world's ...

Checkpoint Charlie was the most popular border crossing between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. It has also had ... East to West via the Berlin Wall – as well as stories about ...