Once it was a stark symbol of cruelty and division, cutting its illogical way across side streets, between buildings or across open land, dividing families, keeping an entire nation prisoner. And yet ...

A screen displays footage of 1989 at the Brandenburg gate over a slogan reading "Keep up the freedom" ahead of celebrations marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Berlin on ...

November 9 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Historians say in the 1960s and 1970s, West Germany developed a strong economy - and West Berlin shared in that wealth. Frederick ...

Twenty-nine years ago, on November 9, 1989, a most extraordinary thing happened. After decades of dividing a city and a nation, the Berlin Wall came down in a revolution sweeping communist Eastern ...

Germany today celebrates the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We’ll be celebrating the moment in our family, too, it having made it possible for me ...

100 days in 1989, exploring the days and actions surrounding the Fall of the Wall. November 9th 1989 the most solid symbol of the Cold War for nearly 30 years, the Berlin Wall, was knocked down. The ...

Its roots go back two centuries. Can we learn from this history in shaping the years ahead? Robert Conquest, the great tabulator and eulogist of Communism’s victims, wrote that “over the past century ...

If you’re under 30, brace yourself. The newspapers are about to be full of endless (ie quite long) articles about all the changes that happened in Europe at the end of 1989. But they’ll ignore one ...

Germany marks 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities beginning Saturday under the theme "Preserve Freedom!" as Russia's war rages in Ukraine and many fear democracy is under attack.

People look at screens displaying artworks at Brandenburg gate ahead of celebrations marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Photo: RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP. Germany marked 35 years ...

Germany marked 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities on Saturday under the theme "Preserve Freedom!", against the somber backdrop of war in Gaza and Ukraine, and fears that democracy is ...