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 ...

In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

“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 ...

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

The highlight of our 1989 trip was a special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing down of the wall at Checkpoint Charlie and other places. While there, we celebrated New ...

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 ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.

Stephan Stiess from Newcastle in Australia was 19 years old when the Berlin wall came crashing down. The next day, he joined the enormous queue of East-Germans wanting to explore the other side of ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American U2 ...

Located in the center of Berlin ... Wall, as well as explore a handful of exhibits. Visitors will learn about the political and historical context that led to the wall’s construction, its fall ...