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 ...

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

in Berlin, Germany, December 17, 2024.(Liesa Johannssen/Reuters) Germany’s general election will be held on February 23. As of January 20, Politico’s poll of polls revealed that the center ...

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 ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 ... occurred in the period 1949 to 1989 - the year that the Berlin Wall was knocked down, as the GDR collapsed. The oldest person to die at the border ...

Every 9 November, the fall of the Berlin Wall is commemorated with live ... the physical manifestation of the Iron Curtain was torn down, reuniting East and West in the German capital.