In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...

The error of their mythology about 1989 matters because we face another such moment of historical rupture today.

This is how a concrete barrier turned into the world's most dramatic stage of human defiance. You may have heard about the ...

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold ... period 1949 to 1989 - the year that the Berlin Wall was knocked down, as the GDR collapsed. The oldest person to die at the border was ...

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 ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American U2 ...