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 David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

A stretch of the Berlin Wall, 1962. The wall was topped with barbed wire to prevent East Berliners from escaping While most of the Berlin Wall anniversary coverage has focused on the day the wall ...

In honour of the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, the typeface pays tribute to the artwork that was created during its existence Creative agency Heimat Berlin has released a new ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989 ... we can work with the communists. Let them come to Berlin.

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 ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

Stephan Stiess from Newcastle in Australia was 19 years old when the Berlin wall came crashing down. The next day, he joined the enormous queue of East-Germans wanting to explore the other side of ...