The country is scrambling to roll back a decision to decommission bunkers as military experts warn that Russia could be in a ...

From hot air balloons to secret tunnels, some tried anything to escape East Berlin. These are the most daring—and strangest—attempts.

These and a thousand other memorials and rituals are expressions of Germany’s Erinnerungskultur, a “memory culture” built up over decades. Lately they have been overlaid by a more familiar sight: the ...

This Cold War artifact, once a symbol of division in Europe, now rests in a small Southern California park. Its journey from Berlin to Ronald Reagan Park reflects forgotten plans, local history, and ...

As an infantry company commander in the Army Berlin Brigade, I saw how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Germany and Europe.

The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

As Germany marks the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall this year, key witnesses are highlighting the crucial role played by St. John Paul II in bringing about the peaceful revolution ...

The art of this storied city, political or otherwise, tends toward the gritty, the weird and the reliably cutting-edge. Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled ...

35 years ago the Berlin wall fell, reuniting Germans who were divided between east and west for nearly three decades. As Berliners poured through holes in the concrete to reach the other side, the ...

The longest section of Wall remaining in Berlin is the East Side Gallery, where the once-gray concrete slabs are covered with murals that were painted by 118 artists after the opening of the border.

After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany’s secret police frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past thirty years trying to restore them.