Alarmed by the building of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy sent his Vice-President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and US General, Lucius D Clay to Berlin. The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War ...

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected the idea of ending the war with Russia by freezing the conflict along ...

If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may ...

The half-naked protester was filmed defacing remnants of the Berlin Wall kept outside the German ... calling for Europe to “achieve independence from the USA.” ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The ... On 1 May 1960, just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American ...

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.

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

In “We the People,” British historian Timothy Garton Ash described the opening of the Berlin Wall as “a moment of emancipation and liberation.” Ron Zuriel, a Jewish photography enthusiast ...

“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 ...

Multi-coloured lettering on high-rise buildings, gigantic figures painted over in black out of protest, advertising with wall paintings – graffiti in Berlin has many faces. Goethe.de invites you on a ...