Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of East/West ...

Do all intelligence agents live like James Bond? Not those who worked for East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Stasi).

Forget the regular list of landmarks, museums, and destinations. Marriette has the real scoop on Berlin tours in English.

In the late 1970s, as English pop dominated the world, Mark Reeder instead swore by German electronic music. He left his ...

August 4th has long been a date marked by moments that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the most ...

Fed up with the dominant political parties, many German voters are backing new leaders who have been labelled extreme.

Writer, actress and theater director, the now 60-something Emine Sevgi Özdamar arrived in Germany from Turkey as a young ...

Fed up with the dominant political parties, many German voters are backing new leaders who have been labelled extreme.

Helsinki 35 politically diverse states agreed to launch a new process for cooperation and strengthening security. What was ...

Dr. Klaus Radermacher takes a look at the consequences and lessons learned from the disastrous construction of ...

Joachim Bitterlich grew up dreaming of a borderless Europe, and as a diplomat played his part in making it happen. Now he ...

In The World of the Cold War, Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at the London School of Economics, recounts ...