Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. East and West German citizens celebrate as they climb the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate after the opening of the East German ...

Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The Berlin Wall divided Germany – and Europe - for nearly 30 years. Like other walls ...

East Berliners crossing into West Berlin at the Potsdamer Platz. Germany, 1989. The Berlin Wall was that rare thing—an ideological divide cast in stone and metal. During the decades of the Cold War, ...

Reporting from Venice, Italy — In 1962, two men from East Berlin attempted a daring escape to the West. Peter Fechter and Helmut Kulbeik were young — all of 18. On Aug. 17, the pair slipped away from ...

A red booth at Potsdamer Platz highlights Berlin's transformation since 1989. The landmark square was once a waste land, but is now one of Berlin's most contemporary and liveliest areas. The red ...

[Germany] With only days away from the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, how best to mark the occasion? Rebuild it or at least a virtual two kilometer stretch. That’s the approach being ...

Pre-World War II, Potsdamer Platz was Berlin's main plaza – and a bustling one, at that – but the ensuing wars left it ravaged. After the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, companies like Sony ...