The Berlin Wall is seen in 1961, the year it was built, at Potsdamer Platz, in Berlin. The East German government built the wall to seal off East Berlin from the part of the city occupied by the ...

Pre-World War II, Potsdamer Platz was Berlin's main plaza – and a bustling one, at that – but the ensuing wars left it ravaged. After the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, companies ...

The first buildings of Berlin’s born-again Potsdamer Platz opened 30 years ago. Largely complete by 2000, this ambitious urban development, a kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate, had been Europe’s ...

As Berlin has done several times in its long history, the city is rebuilding itself, at Potsdamer Platz in avant-garde shapes of glass and steel, and elsewhere in new social structures ...

The Berlin Wall divided Germany – and Europe - for nearly 30 years. Like other walls around the world, ... A portion of the Wall has already been demolished at Potsdamer Platz.

Berlin: The Wall; Berlin: The Wall. 25 minute read. TIME. August 25, 1961 12:00 AM GMT-4 ... he appeared at Potsdamer Platz in a light grey suit and cream-colored straw hat to pat a Vopo on the ...

I n a conference room in Berlin, around the corner from Potsdamer Platz, a German journalist called Peter Brinkmann is telling me how he helped bring down the Berlin Wall.It’s a story I’ve ...