When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...
From techno temples to hedonistic hideouts, anything-goes revelry has been core to Berlin's soul for the past century. But ...
Part of the effectiveness of Possession as a film is its location. Set in Berlin during the Cold War, ŻuŠawski utilizes the divided city to his full advantage. Berlin, separated by a wall ...
When the former Soviet Union surprisingly tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989, many considered the act a signal to the end of the Cold War between America and the Soviets. Gorbachev and Glasnost ...
The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.
During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... UK and France would each control a zone. The German capital Berlin, which was in the Soviet zone, would also be divided into four.
On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...
Raymond D'Addario was 26 years old when the U.S. Army assigned him to photograph the Nuremberg War Trials from 1945 to 1946. D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin ...
The following series dwell on the history of the Cold War and the rise and fall of East Germany. Set in a provincial village far from Berlin, Tannbach offers a novel perspective on the Cold War. The ...
Cold War bunkers, and Prussian palaces just a short U-Bahn ride away from each other. —Eliot Stein How to spend a day discovering Berlin's creative side How to spend a day discovering Berlin's ...