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Amid all that automotive testosterone, Mitch Armbruster of Apex and his son Noah stood next to their Trabant, a Cold War ...
The renaming of a Berlin boulevard using the racist M-word to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Strasse, after Germany's first African-born scholar, highlights a long struggle to erase symbols of a brutal colonial ...
The film discusses the importance of voting as a fundamental right in America, highlighting its historical significance and ...
For Americans over age 45, our childhoods were defined in part by the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union ...
When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, no one believed it would ultimately lead to its fall.
Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...
As an infantry company commander in the Army Berlin Brigade, I saw how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Germany and Europe.
House librarian Tizane Navea-Rogers digs through The Independent’s photography archive and revisits the final days of the Berlin Wall ...
BERLIN (AP) — Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and motherhood. The mother of two was able to preside over a large ...
How the Berlin Wall Became a 100-Mile Bike and Pedestrian Trail Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible ...
I remember the old West Berlin before the Wall fell in 1989, it was a strange place to visit as a tourist, writes Michael Russell ...
On this day in 1989, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, allowing citizens to travel freely from East to West Berlin.