Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Berlin governing mayor places flowers to mark the 36th anniversary of the Berlin wall fall, at the Wall memorial on Bernauer ...

The people of Berlin woke on August 13 1961 to discover that their city had been split in two. Despite the earlier cold war ...

The Berlin Wall stood as one of the Cold War’s most powerful symbols. For nearly three decades, it divided families, ideology, and a nation. Its construction and eventual fall shaped modern European ...

The Cold War lasted 45 agonizing years. Daily life in the Soviet Union was a mixture of dread and horror—children taught to report their parents’ whispered doubts, families queuing for hours for bread ...

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 ...

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 ...