When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...

West Germany joined NATO in May 1955 after the ... of each other led to a series of tense stand-offs throughout the Cold War.

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War ... fears of war in the West. And instead of preventing the establishment of an independent West Germany, it accelerated ...

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold ... divisions in Germany became de facto country boundaries, creating West and East ...

Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected the Cold War ideologies of Russia and the US. West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy ...

Set in a provincial village far from Berlin, Tannbach offers a novel perspective on the Cold War. The show’s real-life historical model is the town of Mödlareuth on the border of Bavaria and Thuringia ...