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 ...

Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate was the border between East and West Berlin until reunification. The buildings ...

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 ...

Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were shot while on duty.

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 ...

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

Thousands of East Berliners have relatives and friends in West Berlin ... for youth between the two, no possibility of taking part in any kind of truly democratic life. No doubt the Wall solved ...

Checkpoint Charlie was the most popular border crossing between East Berlin and ... stories of those who escaped from East to West via the Berlin Wall – as well as stories about those who ...

Authorities in Germany's capital Berlin have banned local performers from wearing US army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the iconic Cold War crossing between the east and west of the city.

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