I bought this fragment in Berlin in 1990. In Pariser Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate, it was then possible to buy a range ...

For 28 years from, 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall was the epitome - the defining image - of the cold war. I was in Berlin in ...

Simpson shares the common view that the fall of the Berlin wall was the summation of a long period of “slow decline” of Soviet and communist supremacy. We see this gradual shift in the form of ...

To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, BBC Four has unveiled four new films that address and discuss the circumstances that led to the end of the Cold War and the fall of the ...