Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin ... perhaps the most commercial evidence of Berlin's post-Cold War development. Here you'll find the Sony ...

a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing.

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 America and the West, against Russia. Berlin was ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War ... genuine fears of war in the West. And instead of preventing the establishment of an independent West Germany, it accelerated ...

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

Britain had been at war with Germany since Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Despite the fact that Stalin had carved up and invaded Poland in 1939 alongside Hitler, the USSR allied itself ...