The call came at 11:30 to my home ... Gorbachev,” Reagan declared, “tear down this wall!” Two years later, Gorbachev’s actions in Moscow and in Berlin helped the people in “the other ...

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 ...

In 1961, the city was split into two by the Berlin Wall. Two new Germanys were created ... So that the public can peer down through the glass onto the politicians debating below.

Where were you when the wall came down? The question is prompted by the news that the Berlin Wall has now been down for longer than it had been up in the first place. A cruel and ugly signifier of ...

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

A stretch of the Berlin Wall, 1962. The wall was topped with barbed wire to prevent East Berliners from escaping While most of the Berlin Wall anniversary coverage has focused on the day the wall ...

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism ... Wall as a divisive era came to an end.

In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Berlin was one city, Germany one country again. Kalin's garden was now suddenly back in Mitte, rather than Kreuzberg. By then, Kalin was a local hero ...

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 ...

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 ...