Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of its reunification this month. To Europeans born since, it must be hard to imagine ...

The complete Berlin Wall Trail offers history, art, nature and a second city along the former East-West border.View on euronews ...

The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border guards. East Germany militarized the entire border with the West, ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...

This story originally published on Nov. 10, 1989. It is being republished as part of the commemoration of USA TODAY's 40th anniversary on Sept. 15, 2022. AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they ...

Joachim Rudolph never liked East Germany. He was 5 in 1945, when the Allies divided Germany in two after World War II — the West turned into a capitalist democracy, and his home in the East into a ...

Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible way to experience history Joe Baur - Freelance travel writer It’s ...

In “Beyond the Wall,” the historian Katja Hoyer draws on archives and interviews to bring the eastern half of Germany back into the postwar picture. By Kati Marton When you purchase an independently ...

East Germany’s political collapse was mirrored in football, but a focus on youth brings hope for the future.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This 1962 film documents Germany and the city of Berlin after World War II. It highlights the factors that led to the division of Germany and the ...

THE Berliners on both sides of the Wall have a common past, speak the same language, and feel themselves to be inhabitants of the same city. They are a determined people. Even under the crippling ...

THE PLAQUE at 7 Schönholzer Strasse, in the trendy Prenzlauer Berg district of east Berlin, is easy to miss. Yet it marks one of the most astonishing episodes in the grim history of communist East ...