The luminous balloons mark where the Berlin Wall once stood. (Waqas Chughtai/CBC) In the years following reunification, more than 2 million people moved to the West. "They were under duress in the ...

Peter Schneider, a veteran chronicler of the city, writes: “The fall of the Wall and the reunification of Berlin’s two halves have sped up the city’s pulse, injecting new life energy.

The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the unification of Germany on Oct. 3, 1990, less than a year after the border reopened. The demolition of the Wall ended in 1994. Today, there is a ...

In the world of micronations, there are quirky and unusual conflicts that continue to intrigue both historians and ...

Germany on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the 1953 uprising in Berlin against the East German communist government. "We ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall began the process of German reunification and precipitated the fall of communist regimes across Eastern Europe, thus drawing the Cold War to an end. Germany was ...

In Berlin, the Wall was erected starting in 1961. There was a Cold War between the great powers. The opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 sealed the end of the GDR state. It paved the way for ...

On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Cold War and the unification of East and West Germany. A ...

The art of this storied city, political or otherwise, tends toward the gritty, the weird and the reliably cutting-edge. Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled ...

Seamstresses work th the VEB clothing factory "Fortschritt",1987 in Berlin. (Zentralbild/DPA via AP) ...