The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by Soviet-backed East Germany to stop its citizens defecting to the democratic enclave of West Berlin. The wall spanned 96 miles, encircling West Berlin. It stood for ...

Before visiting Berlin, I thought of German reunification as a finished chapter of history.However, stories I heard on local ...

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. One year later, a historic concert was held in the same city. Many famous musicians ...

The 10th of November is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Markus Knauf was 15 years old at the time. He’s now a spokesman at the German Embassy in Washington and spoke with WTOP’s ...

After the Allied victory in World War II, Germany was divided into four occupation zones administered by the United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union. The same thing happened in Germany’s ...

A giant Karl Marx statue towers in the east German city of Chemnitz but, 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, another political wind is blowing here as the ex-communist city battles the image of a far ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged the United States to be a “mutually respectful partner” and reject nationalism, in a clear salvo aimed at US leader Donald Trump as Germany on Saturday ...

Sections of the Berlin Wall are of the Wende Museum’s permanent collection in Los Angeles, Calif. Credit: Isai Ramos on Unsplash Sixty-five years ago this week, soldiers and engineers of the German ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – One Wichita veteran spent most of his service in Germany before the Berlin Wall came down. "My mother was kind of the influence for making me join the Army. She was like, 'Brent ...

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