It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a ...

BERLIN: Germany marks 25 years since the euphoric fall of the ... The East German authorities built the Wall, which they called an "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart", in August 1961 to halt a ...

the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete wall, complete with ...