In his new capacity as President of South Africa, FW de Klerk directly experienced for the first time how the international community had abandoned its support for minority white rule.
The Berlin Wall in October 1988.
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The decision to move the Stasi files into the German national archive has sparked debate of how memories of life before reunification should be handled.
The collapse of the East German economy following unification has combined with racism and neoliberalism to feed far right support.
NBC Berlin correspondent Piers Anderton inside the tunnel during the network’s 1962 escape project.
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Marking the end of the Cold War offers the chance to reflect on the changes and continuities in African politics and international relations since 1989.
When the Wall came down: Berlin 1989.
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It would be easy to assume that outbreaks of extreme-right groups in the former east are a legacy of its communist past, but the idea does not bear scrutiny.
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, site of a savage Civil War battle on Sept. 17, 1862.
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Protected from development, natural landscapes worldwide are emerging from the violence of war.
A photograph taken by Stasi operatives of suspected defectors at an abandoned restaurant in Kreuzberg, Berlin, in 1962.
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30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, covert surveillance images offer us an unparalleled look at the lives of people trying to escape from the east to the west.
An employee watches a bank of TV’s broadcasting a news report on a Hanoi summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 28, 2019.
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Made up almost entirely of West Germans, the roster of Germany’s national soccer team reflects divisions that remain almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The socialist traffic symbol Ampelmann, seen here in Berlin, constitutes an international brand empire. In the age of mass consumerism, what’s behind a nostalgia for socialist symbols and the sugarcoating of socialist regimes?
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At a time when young people across the West are increasingly sceptical about liberal democracy, the Netflix series Babylon Berlin reminds us of the lessons to be learnt from the history of the Weimar Republic.