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Legacy of Berlin Wall: What is 'wall sickness', and how is it still relevant today?
November 10, 2024 11:31 am
The Berlin Wall came down 35 years ago today. But its legacy lives on in border walls around the world.
35 years later: How fall of the Berlin Wall shaped, divided, and united a generation
August 05, 2025 11:56 am
The Wall stood from 1961 to 1989. It was meant to stop Germans from fleeing the communist East to the more prosperous West
Violence erupts at protest against Berlin camp eviction
October 16, 2021 9:21 pm
Police say officers were attacked and cars torched as thousands of people gathered in opposition to the clearance of the radical left-wing Köpi-Platz encampment in central Berlin.
Germany marks low-key 30th anniversary of reunification
October 03, 2020 4:24 pm
Germany was reunited on October 3, 1990, after four decades of Cold War division. While much progress has been made since then, economic and other differences between the west and the less-prosperous east still persist.
Explained: The fall of the Berlin Wall and how it impacted geo-politics
November 09, 2019 8:31 pm
In 1961, the borders between East and West Germany were closed, and the division cost common people their homes, families, jobs and changed their lives irrevocably, creating two separate nations built on different socio-political and economic ideologies, separated by blocks of concrete that were collectively 140 km long.
How the press in Eastern Europe reacted to the fall of the Berlin Wall
November 08, 2019 10:09 pm
The Romanian newspapers were silent; the Croatian ones cheered along with everyone. And the Berlin state paper didn't even mention the fall of the Berlin Wall in the first days following November 9, 1989. An analysis.
A wall that fell
November 10, 2014 1:18 am
Four out of 10 Berliners in a survey said they still didn’t feel at home in a united Berlin.
Fall of the Berlin wall: 25 years later, Germany marks the fall that changed the world
November 09, 2014 1:18 pm
Chancellor Angela Merkel is opening an overhauled museum Sunday at the site — home to one of few surviving sections of the Wall.
Wall in the head
November 08, 2014 12:05 am
Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell, Germany is a new country, despite persistent divisions.
Teenage rebellion anticipated fall of Berlin Wall
November 05, 2014 2:00 pm
Before the protests that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a group of teenagers dared to challenge the system and paid a hefty price.
BERLIN WALL PHOTOS
The biggest stories this week — in pictures
November 12, 2022 2:26 pm
From US midterm elections to the 33rd anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall, here are the top pictures of the week from around the world
Berlin Wall now and then: These photos show city's division during Cold War
November 09, 2019 10:36 am
This combination of photos shows a section of the Berlin Wall where it divided the city during the Cold War and the same location.
The Berlin Wall: Then and Now
November 10, 2014 1:33 pm
Here's a look at what Berlin Wall was then; and what it is now.
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