In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

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 ...

In honour of the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, the typeface pays tribute to the artwork that was created during its existence Creative agency Heimat Berlin has released a new ...

The highlight of our 1989 trip was a special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing down of the wall at Checkpoint Charlie and other places. While there, we celebrated New ...

When the Berlin Wall came down in the autumn of 1989, Sasha and Vera were two single mothers, each with seven-year-old sons, sharing a two-room apartment in a Moscow suburb. They were the odd couple.

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989 ... we can work with the communists. Let them come to Berlin.

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American U2 ...

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 ...

Stephan Stiess from Newcastle in Australia was 19 years old when the Berlin wall came crashing down. The next day, he joined the enormous queue of East-Germans wanting to explore the other side of ...