On Thursday night in the Europa League, Union Berlin stepped into the temple of style. They weren’t supposed to be there. They were only meant to be autumn’s story. But there they were, duelling with ...

What should happen to the architectural remnants of a fallen dictatorship? The instinctive answer is: tear them down.

BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the Berlin ...

Author and photographer Marques Vickers has created a detailed visual tour with his book “The Berlin Wall: Over 25 Years After Fall: Tracking the Remnant from the Wedding District to the Oberbaum ...

When viewers of the documentary film Life Behind the Berlin Wall were informed that citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had to wait twelve to seventeen years for a Trabi (the worst car in ...

Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border guards. East Germany militarized the entire border with the West, ...

This story originally published on Nov. 10, 1989. It is being republished as part of the commemoration of USA TODAY's 40th anniversary on Sept. 15, 2022. AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they ...