Why you should visit this German city packed with Cold War curiosities and oddball festivals - It’s not somewhere that’s ...

Relations will be strained until European leaders recognize that foreign policy realism places the pursuit of the American ...

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.

When the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, the situation was very different from the situation Russian leader ...

Sections of the Berlin Wall still standing at Potsdamer Platz ... [Nick Hilden/Al Jazeera] At the time, Berlin sat at the crux of the Cold War. In the wake of World War II, the victorious powers ...

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 ...

After 75 years, the Berlin Film Festival retains its reputation and the vitality of its programming and operations.

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 ...

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 ...