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Cold War-style espionage is back. Just last week it emerged that US and German secret services had thwarted a plot to assassinate the chief executive officer of Rheinmetall AG.
Cold War Walking Tours (Berlin) For those looking to explore Berlin's Cold War history on foot, specialized walking tours ...
President Kennedy decided to reinforce the 5,000-man U.S. garrison in Berlin, ordered 1,500 troops of the 8th Division to cross East Germany along the Helmstedt-Berlin Autobahn in armored trucks.
So with the Cold War and Kennan top of mind, it’s a good time to ask what is left of his presence in the East Berlin area, 17 years after his death at age 101.
Berlin remembers the Airlift in many ways, here are some: places, planes and cans.
Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border.
An 80-year-old ex-Stasi officer was sentenced to 10 years for a Cold War-era murder on Monday. Martin Naumann shot 38-year-old Polish citizen Czesław Kukuczka at a border crossing in Berlin, 50 ...
For Frederick Kempe, president of the Atlantic Council, today “Ukraine is the front line of a global struggle,” just as West Berlin was during the Cold War — a reality acknowledged by China ...