It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989.

Berlin is aiming to enshrine protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual identity in the German constitution, ...

The Ministry of the Interior banned the publication in July 2024, calling it the "central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene." ...

“When I came here first, what I often remarked upon was that, for Germans, everything is absolutely forbidden unless it allowed whereas, for the Irish, everything is allowed unless it is absolutely ...

Janet Stuckenschmidt and Randy Fields took pieces of the Berlin Wall with them when they left Germany, eventually settling in Nebraska. The two had worked as Russian-speaking U.S. Army linguists.

by Rick Steves, December 16, 2024 | Remaining segments of the Berlin Wall provide a reminder of the impact this 30-year-long division had on peoples' lives. Read more here.

Thirty-five years after the fall of the wall, liberal Berlin has lost its luster. The embodiment of the Germany that benefited so much from the open, liberal world after the fall of the Iron ...

On Saturday November 9th, Germany will mark 35 years since the fall of the Wall. It stood dividing East and West Berlin for 28 years. Just a short walk from my flat, there are markings on the ...

The nearby Museum of the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie focuses on the many brave and ingenious escape attempts over, under, and through the border into West Germany. (Berlin alone saw more than 5,000 ...

Fireworks light the sky during the as musicians play on stage during the concert for freedom for the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.