Berlin is an on-again, off-again capital with a darker history than most cities in Europe. It served as the epicenter of Hitler's Third Reich and was nearly wiped off the map at the end of the ...

The central part of the wall that divided West Berlin and East Berlin was 43 km, or 27 miles long. Intelligence reports and maps included ... canal witnessed 24-year-old Gunter Litfin’s death ...

The picture is stark: the former route of the Berlin Wall divides the city into voting choices. In the constituencies of the East, voters chose Die Linke (The Left party), descended from the old ...

With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall being commemorated on Nov ... in the peaceful revolution that swept away the old Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or D.D.R. Celebrations ...