'Mr President, don't build this wall!' Berlin's mayor urges Trump to learn from history... READ MORE›
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
The article was finally dropped from the penal code in East Germany in 1968... READ MORE›
An East Berlin policeman adds bricks to heighten the Berlin Wall to 15 feet Oct... READ MORE›
Fall of the Berlin Wall Balloons replace barbed wire as illuminated installation marks route 25 years after the fall... READ MORE›
According to Peter Kreko, an analyst at Budapest think-tank Political Capital, even western European far-right parties such as France's Front National would reject such a campaign... READ MORE›
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
Hungary, which was the first Communist country to dismantle the Iron Curtain, is now building a new curtain on its southern border... READ MORE›
The 'Come home, young person' scheme also offers free flights back to Hungary for young people living abroad... READ MORE›
A deepening white nationalism ties Trump's base to Europe's far right... READ MORE›
As they neared Hungary, four men with knives and stun guns, dressed as Serbian policemen, threatened them and took their money... READ MORE›
Mr J ger, now 71, is renowned in Germany for being the man who opened the Berlin Wall ... READ MORE›
Within hours East Germans were dancing on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate and other border crossings soon opened... READ MORE›
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
Here, we take a look through some of the best photographs from the rise and fall of the 'Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart'... READ MORE›
Within hours, thousands of East Germans were thronging the checkpoints to West Berlin, demanding to be allowed to cross... READ MORE›
Eastern Germany still lags behind the western parts of the country in terms of its economic performance and unemployment rates, despite continuous financial assistance since reunification... READ MORE›
East Berlin 'cut off from the world' The Berlin Wall wasn't built to collect taxes or to stop invaders, but to keep people in... READ MORE›
Never mind that the peril of having fallen the wrong side of the Iron Curtain are all too clearly exemplified by Greece's neighbours... READ MORE›
It opened the border to Austria and let them through on their way to West Germany... READ MORE›
Germany marks 25 years since fall of berlin wall... READ MORE›
Two years later, in a controversial speech, Mr. Bahr articulated his concept of change through contact in dealing with East Germany and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
I don't like Ossies and can't stand being around them, said west Berlin native Monika Bruecker... READ MORE›
Guenter Schabowski, who announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, in 1989... READ MORE›
Alois Mock, Austrian Who Helped Tear Down Iron Curtain Literally, Dies at 82... READ MORE›
BERLIN -- Heinz Kessler, a former head of East Germany's armed forces and a die-hard Communist to the last, died on May 2 in eastern Berlin... READ MORE›
Schabowski, a member of and spokesman for the Soviet bloc state's ruling Politburo, was speaking at an otherwise dull news conference on Nov... READ MORE›
An East Berlin citizen embraces a West Berlin woman after the fall of the wall... READ MORE›
The Brandenburg Gate stands illuminated during celebrations on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall... READ MORE›
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