Thousands of East Berliners have relatives and friends in West Berlin and in West Germany, separated from them by the Wall and the barbed wire. In many cases mother is separated from son ...

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 ...

Ah, Berlin! The city where history meets hipsters, and street art adorns walls with stories to tell. But with so much to ...

After reunification, East Germans felt that they had been colonized ... Anyone who has reported from the region since the fall of the Berlin Wall has heard their own stories of young people ...

On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between ...

and insisted on turning some of the speakers to blast his music out over East Berlin. A crowd gathered to listen by the Brandenburg Gate and began chanting, “The wall must fall!” and pushed ...

Firefighters are on the scene of a fully involved house fire in the 100 block of Fourth Street in East Berlin.

With the anniversary of German unification on Sunday, the 10-time East German champions are languishing ... a section of the Berlin Wall is now plastered with graffiti. In the area behind it ...