East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world came together to transform this bleak structure into a canvas of hope and ...

Bullish - Video. World War II: The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany. Posted: April 16, 2025 | Last updated: July 10, 2025. The film chronicles the history of Berlin from 1939 to the 1960s ...

When dawn came four hours later, a wall divided East Berlin from ... For seldom had history witnessed so ... almost 3,500,000 East Germans—no less than 20% of the post-World War II population ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 1989, women look back at how different their lives were under communism in East and capitalism in West Germany ...

The wall caused a sudden labor shortage in both halves of the city when it was erected in 1961, and invited substitute workers poured in. (West Berlin drew from Turkey and other Mediterranean ...

• Parts of the Wall are on display or in private safekeeping all over the world. One section of the Wall is in a men's room of the Main Street Casino in Las Vegas, History.com reports.

It was built to encircle West Berlin, a 185-square-mile island of capitalism — the three sectors of the city occupied by US, UK, and France forces after World War II — surrounded by Soviet ...

Berlin, October 1961: American airmen from the RAF Wethersfield football team, sightseeing while in town for a game against the Berlin Bears, toe a line marking the border between East and West as ...

Berlin, Germany – 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 geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and ...

Berlin is home to bureaucrats and hedonists, lobbyists and artists, lovers of techno and devotees of classical music. The city’s turbulent 20th-century history is visible in the bullet holes on ...