In the 1990s, there was reason to hope that Russia was moving toward democracy and that China, despite the Tiananmen Square ...
The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...
“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 ...
It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a ...
Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most momentous geopolitical events of the 20th century. Germany was ...
The renowned art historian Bénédicte Savoy is an expert on the forced appropriation of cultural assets through war and colonialism, an area of research that concerns everyone in Europe. This ...
The historical moment coincided with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the political divide between the capitalist West Germany and the communist East Germany, with the US and the ...
Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial ... political and historical context that led to the wall’s construction, its fall and the reunification of Germany.