The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 cemented the division of the city. For Zerwer, the period after that shows architectural differences, but also parallels. One fundamental commonality was ...

When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches ... the political and historical context that led to the wall’s construction, its fall and the reunification of Germany.

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 ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now 1,800km of walls and fences either built or under construction on Europe’s borders. That is the equivalent of almost 12 new ...

Border walls? History is replete with the construction of border walls: The Great Wall of China; Hadrian's Wall; Berlin Wall; Walls of Constantinople; Great Wall of Gorgan; Babylon ...