When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

Experts and travelers say the museum gives context to what's left of the border crossing, and indeed you will find chilling stories of those who escaped from East to West via the Berlin Wall ...

A crowd gathered to listen by the Brandenburg Gate and began chanting, “The wall must fall!” and pushed forward until the authorities forcibly dispersed them.For the late Bowie, who’d gone to live in ...

Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin ... aware that prostitution is legal in Germany, and a percentage of Berlin's sex workers are victims of ...

After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, chaos quickly erupted throughout the eastern part of the city. It … Continue reading "How Much Do You Really Know About The Berlin Wall?" ...

Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate was the border between East and West Berlin until reunification. The buildings destroyed during the war were reconstructed.

International Booker Prize winners Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann in conversation with Ira Mukhoty at The Hindu Lit for Life 2025 ...

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

On June 24th 1948, one of the biggest crises throughout the whole Cold War started: the Berlin blockade. The Soviet Union blocked all the roads and rail access to West Berlin ... migration from East ...

The BSW (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance) has published its manifesto for the German parliamentary election on 23 February. The concluding section focuses on cutting asylum rights and immigration, and ...

Like “The Reader” (1995), the novel that put Mr. Schlink on the literary map ... of the Holocaust but of Germany’s division into East and West—two societies, with distinct trajectories ...

For most of its history, the United States has been blessed with a favorable strategic geography, primarily in the sense that ...