After the wall came down in 1989, right-wing radicalism boomed in former East Germany. Riots in 1991 and 1992 in cities of Rostock and Hoyerswerda saw racist participants attacking refugee ...

It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989. This is what that day felt like for those who lived through it.

BERLIN—Less than 20 years ago, Germany decided the risk of a military attack on its territory was so low that it decommissioned the country’s last air-raid bunkers. Today, it is scrambling to ...

It only became widely known after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Once the wall fell, the speech seemed to have summed up and even predicted the final phase of the Cold War.