In the aftermath of two tragic wars perpetrated and rationalized on the socially constructed notion of “race” and racial ...

A data-protection watchdog in Germany asked Apple and Alphabet's Google to weigh blocking DeepSeek from their app stores in the country, saying the popular artificial-intelligence app sends user data ...

President Donald Trump prefers to leave America's enemies guessing, but there can now be little doubt that the United States ...

In Germany, artists have recreated the Wall with illuminated white balloons along the path that the structure once traced. The 8,000 balloons stretch more than nine miles across the city ...

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. Jeremy Clarkson announces ...

The Berlin Wall was East Germany’s idea. The Cuban Missile Crisis came close to unleashing nuclear war. Twenty years later, another miscommunication almost launched nuclear weapons.

From feeling families and checkpoints to 57 tunnels designed for a single purpose, here are some interesting facts about the Berlin Wall that history teachers failed to mention… Many Fled by Any Means ...

Each year, millions of visitors enjoy the sites and the sounds of Germany. It is the heart of Europe’s industry and carries ...

A Stasi photo taken during a raid of activists in East Berlin printing the Umweltblätter environmental magazine (Credit: The Stasi Records Archive) Former dissidents, released secret service ...

But in East Germany, without a free press or freedom of opinion, highlighting even basic environmental problems was taboo. On days when West Berlin imposed a smog alert due to high levels of ...

As Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 — and the country’s reunification less than a year later on Oct. 3, 1990 — many in Germany are ...

Just in Time. For Walter Ulbricht, East Germany’s goat-bearded, Communist boss, the wall was utterly necessary to preserve the very life of his dismal satrapy.