In the three decades since communism collapsed and Germany was re-unified, the federal government has poured more than $2 trillion into the impoverished eastern part of the country. It also allowed ...

A man welds a pickaxe to participate in the destruction of the Berlin Wall - Jacques Langevin/Sygma/ Getty Images On the evening of November 9 1989, I was one of the foreign journalists gathered to ...

WASHINGTON (KLTV/KTRE) - As the world marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former diplomat is reflecting on his tenure as the first U.S. ambassador to Germany following reunification.

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, how do we remember that event and Germany’s subsequent reunification? We asked you to write in. This story is the result of your contributions. Kadidia ...

Thirty-one Octobers ago, Germany suddenly and irreversibly reunited after more than 40 years of division. It was sudden, because the Berlin Wall had fallen less than a year earlier and reunification ...

A section of the Berlin Wall stands on display at the United Nations in New York, 2014. (Photo by Don Emmert / AFP via Getty Images) In 1990, the oil baron and philanthropist Robert Hefner III sent a ...

The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world, was brought down, people streamed to climb over it, stand on top of it or rush through it, in shock and jubilation. Others came with ...

SEOUL — Office workers, delivery boys and teenagers in school uniforms hurried through the rain, past the battered concrete slab without giving it a second glance. Hana Lee strode up, stared at it ...

The German capital has many ruins that bear witness to its tumultuous history. Stretches of the Berlin Wall are preserved as a reminder of the pain wrought by political division during the Cold War, ...

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Angela Merkel stand before a service honoring the reunification of Germany in Berlin today. Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP Germany was forced to shrink ...

BERLIN—No one was really in charge the night of November 9, 1989. Thousands of Berliners had converged along the walls slicing through the center of the city, crowds with their own life force, lifting ...

Twenty years ago East and West Germany were reunified. Has Germany grown together since then? Over 300 high school students have tried to answer this question for the competition "20 years of German ...