Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border.

An exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the authoritarian, and officially atheist, communist state throughout the Cold War era.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ruling coalition is considering ways of bolstering the independence of country's highest court as fears about the strength of the far-right AfD party grow.

Poland has launched the “East Shield” project, a massive defensive line along its 400-kilometer border with Russia and Belarus. Announced earlier by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the project ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

In fact, workers at East Berlin’s municipal transport company, BVG, demanded that the pass agreement not only be extended but expanded to permit East Berliners to visit their relatives in the West.

Firefighters battled a fire at Stan Chem Resins in East Berlin on Wednesday night and fire officials said on Thursday that there are no air quality concerns associated with the fire.

East Side Gallery is ranked #6 out of 20 things to do in Berlin. See pictures and our review of East Side Gallery.

BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East Berlin is a city under siege. I saw the soldiers, tanks, and armed police. I felt the fear. My 90-minute taxi ride through East Berlin showed me as many police ...

The novelist and playwright Jenny Erpenbeck grew up in East Germany and entered adulthood as her country ceased to be. Unification was also a sundering, a dissolution of the old certainties: about ...