For more than two decades, West Berlin has lived and prospered despite its isolation inside Communist territory. The economic cost of accomplishing that feat is now getting higher and higher ...

While Willy Brandt was in Paris attending to his new duties as West German Foreign Minister, West Berlin’s parliament elected a man to fill out Brandt’s four-year unexpired term as mayor of ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.