It culminated in one of the most famous scenes in recent history - the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall came down partly because of a bureaucratic accident but it fell amid a wave of revolutions ...

Ceremonies throughout Berlin on Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, culminating in the release of balloons tracing the former outline of the wall. Photo: Getty Images ...

Anyone who has reported from the region since the fall of the Berlin Wall has heard their own stories of young people whose parents unearthed their Jewishness, bequeathing to their children a ...

B ERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events ...

“The first wall to fall was pushed over in 1980 in the Polish shipyards. Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the ...

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 ...

Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most momentous geopolitical events of the 20th century. Germany was ...

At a session titled ‘Love in the Time of Uncertainty’, on day one of The Hindu ’s Lit for Life, 2025, Erpenbeck said the ...

The renowned art historian Bénédicte Savoy is an expert on the forced appropriation of cultural assets through war and colonialism, an area of research that concerns everyone in Europe. This ...

The winds of change are not always a steady, insistent breeze but often a roaring storm that reshapes the landscape over time ...

Stephan Stiess from Newcastle in Australia was 19 years old when the Berlin wall came crashing down. The next day, he joined the enormous queue of East-Germans wanting to explore the other side of ...