The project has been undertaken to help further young people’s understanding of the fall of the wall, bringing the historical into their everyday lives and providing a tool that can be used by both ...
The Berlin Wall, one of the most powerful symbols of the Cold War was destroyed on November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 during the Cold War as *** way to separate the Soviet controlled ...
It is all thanks to a Cornishman who was in Berlin in 1989, and ended up with a bigger souvenir than he bargained for ...
In 1964, the Berlin Wall stood as one of the most heavily guarded borders on Earth. Above ground, soldiers watched for ...
In the summer of 1961, a 21-year-old John Putney traveled abroad for the first time in his life, prompted by his mother to work at a refugee camp in Berlin, where large numbers of people landed after ...
When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a place of, in their words, 'unreality.' ...
Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, and participate in, the remaking of European history? At the time, Eric, our ...
The German capital has many ruins that bear witness to its tumultuous history. Stretches of the Berlin Wall are preserved as a reminder of the pain wrought by political division during the Cold War, ...