Close to the iconic Brandenburg Gate is the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the first formal Holocaust memorial to be sponsored by the German government (in 2005). Nearly 3,000 gravestone ...

The Berlin Cathedral stood in darkness July 27 as German officials ordered for buildings and landmarks across the city to be switched off in an effort to save energy. Omer Messinger/Getty Images ...

The German parliament voted in 2007 and 2008 to approve construction of monuments in Berlin and Leipzig to commemorate the peaceful revolution of 1989, but Monika Gruetters, Germany's commissioner ...

Some 200 buildings and landmarks including Berlin’s red-brick city hall, State Opera House and Charlottenburg Palace will fall in darkness at night, officials in the German capital said this week.

Brian Ladd, East Berlin Political Monuments in the Late German Democratic Republic: Finding a Place for Marx and Engels, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan., 2002), pp. 91-104 ...

In 1891, Mark Twain moved from Hartford to Berlin, Germany, for six months. He was driven away from his Farmington Avenue home by a series of financial failures – his disastrous investment in a ...

The city of Berlin started switching off spotlights illuminating its historic monuments as part of a national effort to save energy in the face of Russian gas shortages.