The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for East and West Germany to reunite ...

Berlin, Germany, Dec. 20, 1963: A woman’s walk down a Berlin street on a cold day is made even more depressing by the presence of the two-year-old Berlin Wall. In later years, buildings near the ...

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between the Americans and the Soviets. It was built by communists to cut off East Germans from the supposed ...

Introduction : modernity, modern art, and fantasies of postwar national identity -- Recuperating the modern : the Cold War battle for the 'real' -- Marking the postwar city : toward a mnemonic modern ...

Germany’s division after World War II was one of the defining moments of 20th-century history, as it was a physical and political split that shaped the onset of the Cold War and influenced global ...