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.

From techno temples to hedonistic hideouts, anything-goes revelry has been core to Berlin's soul for the past century. But rising rents and rapid gentrification may kill the party.

The oldest border watchtower in the GDR is located near Potsdamer Platz and takes you back to the days of the Cold War.

the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete wall, complete with ...

November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...

The Berlin Wall, erected in 1961, stood as a symbol of the Cold War until its fall in 1989, dividing East and West Berlin. The anniversary celebrations, which include exhibitions, concerts ...

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

East German citizens climb the Berlin wall at the Brandenburg Gate after ... celebrate the peaceful revolution that ended Europe's Cold War division on November 9, 1989. Merkel, 60, who grew ...

Raymond D'Addario was 26 years old when the U.S. Army assigned him to photograph the Nuremberg War Trials from 1945 to 1946. D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin ...

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall ... world's joyous and optimistic reactions to the end of the Cold War era. What exists today forms the world's ...