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 ...

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 emergence of a hard-right political force is making the race one the most intense campaigns since the Berlin Wall came down. Although the current largest party in the national parliament ...

Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the Gdansk ...

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 ...

he tells BIRN – and it all began the night the Berlin Wall came down. Whoever remembers the 1990s will at some point have come across rap-metal outfit Faith No More’s king-size, genre-defying ...

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 ...