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 Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

In 1989, not only the Berlin Wall finally came down. That same year, Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year dictatorship in Paraguay fell, marking the end of one of the world's longest-running authoritarian ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

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.

My father fought in the battle for Berlin as a soldier ... there at the collapse of the Wall. People cheered around me. I stood crying. In the dream, an old woman came up to me and asked me ...

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 ...

The borders remained shut until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, with Germany reuniting in October 1990. The wall came down amid unrest in East Germany and a wave of revolutions in ...