In the 1990s, there was reason to hope that Russia was moving toward democracy and that China, despite the Tiananmen Square ...
Juanjo Pereira's 'Under the Flags, the Sun,' debuting at Berlin, takes viewers inside Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year ...
Despite making up less than one-fifth of the German population, eastern German voters are in particular focus ahead of the ...
November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...
The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...
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.
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 ...