Could you have done it? One family zip-lined to freedom -- in a home-crafted zip line. A woman escaped hiding in a hollowed-out surfboard strapped atop her car. Two other families made it in an ...

A Demonstration in front of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany on July 20, 2021. Nestled alongside the River Spree south of Berlin’s city center, Treptower Park is home to green lawns, riverboat ...

Dutch researcher Krijn Thijs investigated how the history of Berlin was written in the twentieth century. In this period Berlin passed through six forms of government, all of which used the historical ...

“Dictators thrive not on love but on indifference,” said Kevin Peraino in The New York Times. That’s the underlying message of Ian Buruma’s “crisply told and uncomfortably relevant” new history of ...

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Compressing a momentous year of wartime history into a few sentences, a new State Department pamphlet titled Background—Berlin, 1961 has drawn strong complaints from Republican Congressmen because it ...

How many lives can one city have? Quite a few if the city is Berlin. Royal capital, imperial seat, economic powerhouse, center of enlightenment … before becoming a synonym for decadence in the 1920s ...

A family vacation to Berlin quickly detours into the ghosts of times past Berlin is filled with endless plaques%2C memorials and museums dedicated to the atrocities of WWII and Communism While the ...

It’s one thing to stand in a place where a historic event transpired a thousand years ago. It’s entirely different to stand in a spot where history was made during your own lifetime. This lesson ...