However, the building now lies in dust, with its spacious corridors, large rooms, and entry halls vacant and without visitors. So what exactly happened? During the Cold War, West Berlin needed a ...

In the wee hours of August 13, 1961, as Berliners slept, the GDR began building fences and barriers to seal off entry points from East Berlin into the western part of the city. The overnight move ...

Not that he is against “building bridges,” said Schütz, but he is unwilling to pay the price the Communists demand for their cooperation. The East Germans want West Berlin turned into a ...

Thirty years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped Berlin's Reichstag building in silver foil, the German capital is paying ...