East Germany's secret police headquarters was stormed, after civil disobedience actions for months beforehand paved the way.

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

Schengen is now a symbol of the migration crisis driving the backlash against globalization and the ascendance of ...

Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were shot while on duty.

Officially, the border between East and West Berlin traced ... In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Berlin was one city, Germany one country again. Kalin's garden was now suddenly back in Mitte ...

Regions of Germany that were under Roman rule approximately 2,000 years ago exhibit higher levels of psychological well-being ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events ... could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany in the second half of 1989, the Bush administration ...

The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard Schlink follows a man trying to rescue a girl from the grip of neo-Nazis.