When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD ...

The history of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its fall in 1989. A powerful symbol of the Cold War.

Anyone who has reported from the region since the fall of the Berlin Wall has heard their own stories of young people whose parents unearthed their Jewishness, bequeathing to their children a ...

“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 ...

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed liberties, and global capitalism laced with some measure of welfare state ...

The borders remained shut until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, with Germany reuniting in October 1990. The wall came down amid unrest in East Germany and a wave of revolutions in ...

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 ...

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 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.