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At a time when the Berlin Wall had largely lowered the city’s temperature and shifted the focus of the Cold War elsewhere, its symbolic presence was multiplied exponentially by films that cemented Berlin’s reputation as a city of intrigue and action.

The new show in the greenhouse at super bien! places the focus on the formation and metamorphosis of sculpture.

Where are the best biergartens in Berlin? Is there anything better on a warm summer’s day than cold beers in a leafy garden? Nothing. Nothing, we tell you.

Call in the demolition team! For better or worse, here are 11 historical examples of Berlin buildings that went out with a bang.

This thrilling page-turner digs into history of a tunnel beneath the ‘death strip’ and marks 60 years since the Berlin Wall was built

The former capital of Hitler's Third Reich was divided after World War II. But the people of Berlin were still able to move around freely in the city. That is, until August 13, 1961.

In the eastern district, a significant stretch of the "hinterland" wall has been preserved

<p>While Berliners have incorporated the city's notorious wall into museums and public art, restoring the site of the Berliner Schloss of the Hohenzollerns and then the Palast der Republic of the East German government has been much more contentious. The Humboldt Forum has been criticized, but its design and reception exemplify the tensions inherent in democracy.</p>

Winston Churchill knew about the theatre of war. After all, he was a great political orator who led Britain through most of World War II. But his theatrics during a peacetime speech in the United States in 1946 would go down in history as one of his most famous and important performances, serving as the opening salvo of the Cold War. Seventy-five years ago this month, Churchill took to the stage at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and declared in a statement called Sinews of Peace that a...