Despite making up less than one-fifth of the German population, eastern German voters are in particular focus ahead of the ...

August 13, 1961: In the early hours of the morning, construction of the Wall begins in Berlin. The Wall was a symbol of the Cold War that divided the world into East and West. In 1989, a peaceful ...

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between ...

Report shows archive footage of the Berlin Wall. Map of East and West Germany. Archive footage of the building of the Berlin Wall. Newspaper headlines about people escaping from East Germany to ...

The opening of the Berlin ... to East Germany; in the second half of the year, beginning with the huge exodus of East Germans to the West but especially after the opening of the Wall, the ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the ... speech in Moscow in which he gave the West an ultimatum. He demanded that, as Berlin lay in East Germany, the Western powers should withdraw ...

The official memorial for the Berlin Wall. Right. -So if we're looking at this, this is the border of East and West Germany. And that basically, that construct appeared... -'52 or '53.

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

Berlin, Germany – 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 geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and ...