In the 1990s, there was reason to hope that Russia was moving toward democracy and that China, despite the Tiananmen Square ...

It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a ...

Landmarks of Reunified Germany ...

“The first wall to fall was pushed over in 1980 in the Polish shipyards. Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...

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 ...

Berlin, Germany – When David Bowie’s Glass ... While Harrison doesn’t attribute the Wall’s fall to Bowie – it is hard to argue that it wasn’t driven by the wider socioeconomic ...

The children’s rhyme came to mind in connection with commemorations of the fall of the Berlin Wall,or rather its opening. Is such an allusion frivolous? Maybe. For millions that event 25 years ago was ...

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 renowned art historian Bénédicte Savoy is an expert on the forced appropriation of cultural assets through war and colonialism, an area of research that concerns everyone in Europe. This ...

After the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989, more than one hundred international artists congregated here, painting murals that depicted the world's joyous and optimistic reactions to the end of the Cold ...