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.

Fifty years ago, Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, achieved a long-desired ...

The actor, writer, translator, and photographer, a figure of Germany's artistic and intellectual scene, arrived in the walled-in city in the early 1970s. He never left, drawn by a vibrancy that set ...