- East Berliners get helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall, which divided the city since the end of ...

People laid flowers at the site of the memorial to the Berlin Wall ... Hitler's Nazi Germany began the systematic vandalization of Jewish business, synagogues and properties. More than 1,400 ...

Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin's symbol of death and division has been turned into a ...

Former dissidents, released secret service files and a zine in an East Berlin basement reveal a little-known chapter of Cold ...

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall ... the building earned the nickname “Tränenpalast” (Palace of Tears). It has since been converted into a museum about everyday life in a divided Germany ...

The 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an event that ... concrete GDR parliamentary building and public event space. It was erected in 1976 on the site of the palace of the Hohenzollern, ...

People's lives were turned upside-down. And where some saw ... a photographer and Ostkreuz member who moved to Berlin from what was West Germany before the wall fell. That difference in ...

When the Berlin Wall fell, it was a culminating moment of a momentous year. In 1989, largely peaceful revolutions swept Soviet Bloc governments. In addition to East Germany, change came to Poland ...

"They call out: 'hands up, switch the machine off, stand against the wall ... down. Standing against them were a tiny group of self-described peaceniks and eco nerds, who printed a magazine with a ...

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall ... that East Germany’s communist regime might snap the border closed as abruptly as it has opened. He has unwittingly been drafted to hold down the ...

Berlin is such an interesting city. If you’ve traveled around Germany to any extent, you’ll see a stark contrast between ...