On Nov. 9, 1989, tens of thousands of East Germans thronged to West Berlin with the opening of the Berlin Wall, and the party ...

Joseph Henry Kolker or Henry Joseph Kolker was born in Berlin or Quincy in 1870 or 1874. The source material varies on name, ...

The Salonites Family presents “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” from Dec. 6 to 21 at the historic Woodland Opera House, 340 ...

At the end of 1941 in reaction to the German invasion, Stalin ordered the formation of sapper or engineer brigades in the Red ...

Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered trials of leaders of the ...

German army soldiers not wanting to end up as criminals of war wrested the political prisoners from the SS and took them to ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

- East Berliners get helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall, which divided the city since the end of ...

Thousands celebrated in Berlin Saturday on the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the subsequent disintegration of former Communist East Germany, and eventually the Soviet Union, ...

The Polish pope, canonized by Francis in 2014, demonstrated throughout his life that faith and peaceful resistance could ...

As Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 ... the economy recovered so quickly after the total devastation of WWII that people soon started talking of a ...