BERLIN --When the East German government built the Berlin Wall in 1961 to prevent its citizens from leaving, the regime failed to account for the ingenuity and creativity of those willing to risk ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial, you can ...

The Berliner Unterwelten, or Berlin Underworld Association, is now offering underground tours of the Berlin Wall. The tours, called "Wall Gaps," explore the escape tunnels dug by East Berliners ...

BERLIN, Germany (KLTV) - Escaping the surveillance and oppression of the East German government during the Cold War often came at great risk. The impressively complex and often dangerous acts of ...

Immerse yourself in modern European history on a 10-day tour offered by Peregrine Adventures that marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The 10-day tour begins in Berlin, where ...

Explore Berlin, Germany’s vibrant capital city, in this virtual tour of its most iconic tourist attractions. Visit the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall, the Reichstag building, Berlin Cathedral, and ...

Twenty-nine years ago, on November 9, 1989, a most extraordinary thing happened. After decades of dividing a city and a nation, the Berlin Wall came down in a revolution sweeping communist Eastern ...

There isn’t much here that she’d recognise. Her apartment was one of millions destroyed in the Battle of Berlin in 1945. Bombed by the Allies and ravaged by the Red Army, Berlin was rebuilt in a ...

BERLIN — When a neighborhood group on a walk through an overgrown patch of land in central Berlin came across a 65-foot stretch of concrete sprayed with graffiti and covered with vines, nobody was ...