A four-kilometre stretch of the former Wall site was lined with artworks from local artists, reflecting the themes of "Freedom" and "Unity." The Berlin Wall, erected in 1961, stood as a symbol of ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial, you ...

The main honour and credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall belongs to Pope John Paul II and it is wrong to say it was the work of former Soviet president Mijail Gorbachev said the historic leader ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact of the Wall on international relations Test your knowledge In the late 1950s, issues around Berlin sparked off one of the ...

Their future was transformed overnight, writes a European journalist, but there’s plenty still to be done. Newsweek’s then-Berlin bureau chief Michael Meyer called 1989 the year that changed ...

It all began in 2018 with Season 1: THE BIG POND. In celebration of the Year of German-American Friendship, our journalists tackled classic German-American topics, like pretzels and the Berlin Wall, ...