Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

At that time Germany had been split into two — East Germany, supported by the ... Sitting on the Berlin Wall would have been ...

In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that the US president, John F Kennedy, would not try to stop him.

East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world came together to transform this bleak structure into a canvas of hope and ...

Berlin, Germany, 1975: A simple task like changing a lightbulb, normally the subject of jokes about how many people are required to do so, takes on a serious, sinister meaning when it’s being ...

While in India to attend the 2025 Jaipur Literature Festival, Erpenbeck spoke to Vineetha Mokkil about her perpetual search ...

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it.

BERLIN - The Art House Tacheles used to be the epicentre of the alternative art and culture scene in Berlin, an impressive ...

Experts and travelers say the museum gives context to what's left of the border crossing, and indeed you will find chilling stories of those who escaped from East to West via the Berlin Wall ...

(Bloomberg) -- German bonds suffered their worst day since the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall on an ... yields surged so much, West Germany and East Germany were about to reunify ...

the day East and West Germany were reunited. The parliamentarians in East Berlin had fulfilled the wishes of the GDR's citizens, laying the groundwork for the call "We are one people!" to become ...