When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

THE Wall led at first to a power psychosis ... state officials repeatedly told me that so long as people could go to West Berlin, the Communist state would never flourish, since visitors to ...

In “We the People,” British historian Timothy Garton Ash described the opening of the Berlin Wall as “a moment of emancipation and liberation.” Ron Zuriel, a Jewish photography enthusiast ...

The date marks both the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and of the beginning of a Nazi-led nationwide wave of terrorism against Jewish people in 1938, which came to be known as the Night of ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... This led to a lack of skilled, educated people in the Eastern sectors. This movement of people became known as the ...

At a session titled ‘Love in the Time of Uncertainty’, on day one of The Hindu ’s Lit for Life, 2025, Erpenbeck said the ...

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 ...

More than three decades after the fall of the Wall, the formerly divided Berlin has emerged as one of Europe's most dynamic, captivating capitals. With shiny new architecture constantly popping up ...