Sources:Geoportal Berlin (the Berlin Wall route); City of Berlin (remains); Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (location of segments); NCD-RisC (mean height) A reporter searches for a ...

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 ...

The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, plus Veterans Day this week. Both are huge events for one Putnam County man, who shared his incredible adventure abroad with us, and how he brought ...

There are huge celebrations in Berlin, as world leaders gather to mark an event that changed the face of the world. It was twenty years ago today that the Berlin Wall came down. In this rebroadcast of ...

Editor’s note: Story was originally published on Nov. 9. 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its ...

The train slows to a crawl as it emerges from the tunnel and enters the underground station at Potsdamer Platz. There is no sign of humanity in the cavernous station, except for a pair of East German ...

On November 9, 1989, Art Harman, a then-young U.S. public policy expert living in McLean, Virginia, was watching television and, like the rest of the world, was awed by what he saw. News anchors on ...

Kriedner and 90 artists from around the world have gathered again to repaint their original creations on the concrete slabs, bringing new life to images that have been eroded by the elements over the ...