The history of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its fall in 1989. A powerful symbol of the Cold War. Fired federal workers targeted by secretive Chinese network Coast-to-coast ...

Their future was transformed overnight, writes a European journalist, but there’s plenty still to be done. Newsweek’s then-Berlin bureau chief Michael Meyer called 1989 the year that changed ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratisation of many eastern European countries and triumphantly ...

In Dresden, East Germany he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later, Putin and 800,000 KGB officers were left shipwrecked.

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.