Where to stay. Hotel de Rome, a 145-room, five-star hotel that was a bank in the 1880s, has one of the best locations in Berlin: Its windows look directly onto the pink-hued Berlin State Opera.An ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border.

Berlin: Under the Wall. 3 minute read. TIME. September 28, 1962 12:00 AM GMT-4. I n their unceasing attempts to escape to freedom, East Berliners have often taken the underground route.

A segment of the Wall on Wilhelmstraße. Photo: Nick Hilden. But the most impressive display—at least in the city center—is the East Side Gallery: a long stretch of segments that were muraled ...

Brian Williams told an audience in 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that he was “fortunate” to have stood at the Brandenburg Gate the night the Berlin Wall came down.

Berlin – 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 ...

As an infantry company commander in the Army Berlin Brigade, I saw how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Germany and Europe. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 73°F.