“Let them come to Berlin.” In 1987 Ronald Reagan used ... “Mr. Gorbachev,” Reagan declared, “tear down this wall!” Two years later, Gorbachev’s actions in Moscow and in Berlin ...

In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

It culminated in one of the most famous scenes in recent history - the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall came down partly because of a bureaucratic accident but it fell amid a wave of revolutions ...

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 ...

Where were you when the wall came down? The question is prompted by the news that the Berlin Wall has now been down for longer than it had been up in the first place. A cruel and ugly signifier of ...

A stretch of the Berlin Wall, 1962. The wall was topped with barbed wire to prevent East Berliners from escaping While most of the Berlin Wall anniversary coverage has focused on the day the wall ...

I’ve come to play rock ... the barriers will be torn down.” Early in 1989, East Germany’s longtime leader Erich Honecker ominously predicted that the Berlin Wall would still stand in ...

On November 9th 1989, a conference mistakenly announced that East Germans could travel to the West, causing thousands to immediately go to the Berlin Wall. Overwhelmed, border guards opened the gates, ...

In honour of the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, the typeface pays tribute to the artwork that was created during its existence Creative agency Heimat Berlin has released a new ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, bringing the reunification of Germany and an end to the Cold War. This documentary revisits the events surrounding the wall's historic collapse. Interviews with ...