After the end of the second world war, Berlin was a divided city controlled by the four major allied powers. Despite the different zones of control, people could move freely between them. However, on August 13, 1961, the East German government decided to end the free travel of Berliners by building a wall around West Berlin. For 28 years, the wall defined the city and served as a metaphor for the entire Cold War. Learn more about the Berlin Wall on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily

The Berlin Wall that once divided the German capital has since become one of its most intriguing attractions drawing millions of tourists from around the world.

Sometimes a kiss is worth the history books.

In the 1950s, the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) – that part of Germany which had been the Soviet Occupation Zone in the post World War Two division of Germany…

This was how it looked when I lived in Berlin in the mid-80s. It’s just a couple of hundred metres along from Checkpoint Charlie (as was). Now that it’s all gone, it’s hard to e…

Approximately 2 kilometers of the Berlin Wall remains today. The longest section is the East Side Gallery, with murals painted by artists from around the world.

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Few symbols better captured the Cold War divide between western Europe and the Soviet bloc than the Berlin Wall, a concrete and barbed wire barrier that divided Germany’s largest city for nearly 30 years. As World War II wound to a close, Germany and Berlin were divided into four zones, each administered by one of […]