On the 65th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on Thursday for the defence of freedom and democracy. "Sixty-five years ago, the leadership of ...
It’s been 65 years since the Berlin Wall divided a city and country overnight. On Aug. 13, 1961, more than 10,000 police and army personnel began constructing the wall. It cut through Berlin, ...
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 ...
In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best cultural, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse. In 1961, the GDR began construction of the Berlin Wall. (is associated with: «Merz ...