City planners rushed to erase divisions between East and West Berlin after the wall came down in 1989. But the fate of communist-era buildings can still provoke friction a quarter-century later.

Map of Berlin area, ... Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin, with most of the popular sights on the city's east side. Mitte.

Eric Friedman at the Berlin Wall in 1988. In January 1988, when he was just 10 years old, Eric Friedman traveled with his mother, Celeste, to live in East Berlin for six months with his stepfather, ...

2003-02-23 04:00:00 PDT Berlin-- I couldn't sleep, and it had nothing to do with swaying on the top bunk of a sleeper car on a night train. I'd been on European overnight trains before, but this ...

After decades of being split between East and West, Berlin is in the middle of a post-reunification makeover. ... Old East Berlin Fades Away Amid Renovations. October 27, 2006 12:38 AM ET.

It’s difficult to imagine what this city was like in the early 1960s, when the 87-mile-long Berlin Wall was intact and bristling with barbed wire and gun emplacements. Today, the wall has ...

At more than 1,200 feet tall, the television tower, or Fernsehturm, dominates the skyline next to Alexanderplatz. The German capital, Berlin, is in the middle of a makeover. After decades of being ...

Mathias Petersdorf wasn’t one of the first people who poured through an opening in the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, but on that fateful night he’d heard the news that East Berliners were ...

City planners rushed to erase divisions between East and West Berlin after the wall came down in 1989. But the fate of communist-era buildings can still provoke friction a quarter-century later.

Berlin is an on-again, off-again capital with a darker history than most cities in Europe.It served as the epicenter of Hitler's Third Reich and was… In Berlin, Remaking The City Can Rekindle Old ...