Few symbols better captured the Cold War divide between western Europe and the Soviet bloc than the Berlin Wall, a concrete and barbed wire barrier that divided Germany’s largest city for nearly 30 ...

Before visiting Berlin, I thought of German reunification as a finished chapter of history.However, stories I heard on local ...

The project has been undertaken to help further young people’s understanding of the fall of the wall, bringing the historical into their everyday lives and providing a tool that can be used by both ...

The world we live in today seems so polarised and divided that we often take for granted how much has changed in the space of a single generation. A new YouTube Originals documentary project, made to ...

For nearly 30 years, Berlin was divided not just by ideology, but by a concrete barrier that snaked through the city, serving as an ugly symbol of the Cold War. Erected in haste and torn down in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. On November 9, 30 years will have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

East German officials open the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, allowing travel from East to West Berlin. The following day, celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down. One of the ugliest and ...

In the summer of 1961, a 21-year-old John Putney traveled abroad for the first time in his life, prompted by his mother to work at a refugee camp in Berlin, where large numbers of people landed after ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. This article is more than 6 years old. An installation on the movie 'Das Leben der ...