Symbolic of the Cold War, the 155-kilometre concrete wall cut the German capital in half and separated its citizens.
Last week it commemorated the 36 th anniversary of that magical moment on November 9 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and the ...
Berlin is home to almost 200 museums, ranging from the independent and quirky to the vast and world-renowned. The five Unesco ...
Berlin Wall; Cold War; U.S. Army; Berlin; USSR; American Occupied Zone; United States Army Berlin Brigade; USAB ...
Whenever I visit Berlin I can't help remembering my spooky visit to East Berlin back in 1971. I vividly recall how, as we were about to return to West Berlin, our tour bus was stopped and emptied at a ...
<br><p>John F. Kennedy may have loved Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, but the true literary spymaster of the '60s was John Le Carr&eacute;. Under his real name, David Cornwell, he worked for MI6, the ...
But there is another anniversary to which I had something of a front row seat on history: the fall of the Berlin Wall. It happened on Nov. 9, 1989, and for most of us who remembered when it was ...