It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a ...

The streets of Berlin were devastated beyond recognition in some areas as 33-year-old photographer William Vandivert was led to the location of the former German chancellery buildings. Just days ...

The exodus of refugees from East to West Berlin reached 1,500 per day before the Berlin Wall was put up. ↗ Originally broadcast 31 July 1961.

“The first wall to fall was pushed over in 1980 in the Polish shipyards. Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... On 1 May 1960, just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris ...

New Year’s Day, our last day in Berlin, was spent following Eric’s friend, Kevin, to a location along the wall, where the concrete was easier to chisel into smaller pieces to bring back home.

Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most momentous geopolitical events of the 20th century. Germany was ...