It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a speech to mark the anniversary. Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the dramatic event that marked the fall of European communism. The first ...

To finish the job, the Trump administration must double down on economic sanctions, strengthen U.S. military deterrence in ...

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 ...

Hoyer interweaves the experiences of ordinary East German citizens to illustrate what daily life was like under communist ...

as the wild and freewheeling Berlin underground that emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the 1990s — when the collapse of communism and a prolonged economic slump meant sprawling ...

This report follows the first annual workshop which was hosted by the Central and South-East Europe Programme Desk on 17 and 18 June 2019 at the Political Science Faculty of Babeş-Bolyai University in ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial ... political and historical context that led to the wall’s construction, its fall and the reunification of Germany.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the dramatic event that marked the fall of European communism. The first sign that freedom was actually working in the former Soviet Bloc would ...