Germany Travel News

The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say he's ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy.

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he feels nostalgia for the former East Germany, in the most revealing description yet of his half-decade as a KGB agent in Dresden under communism.

Berlin warmed up Sunday for the 20th anniversary of the Wall's fall with celebrations throughout the city, as crowds gathered to relive the ecstatic scenes that heralded the demise of European communism.

This Nov. 11, 1989 file photo shows East German border guards standing on top of the Berlin wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate, background, after they removed Berliners from the wall.

A piece of the Berlin Wall moments after it was rammed off by a bulldozer on Nov.

Clinton also announced she will join President Barack Obama during his visit to China from November 15-18, her second trip as chief diplomat to the country the Obama administration recognizes as a key global player.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation to Germany for next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the White House said Friday.

For a citizen of one of the most ludicrous nations ever invented East Germany there was one sure way to get across the fearsome frontier dividing the German Democratic Republic from West Germany: die.

West Berliners at right watch East German construction workers erect a wall across Wildenbruchstrasse and Heidelbergerstrasse in West Berlin in August 1961.

Twenty years ago next Monday, the Berlin Wall - the intimidating 96-mile manifestation of the Iron Curtain - fell, reuniting the city after 28 years and spelling the end for communist rule in East Europe.

The Brandenburg Gate in the background the common sight of a construction worker walking through the area that was once "no man's land" in Berlin.

The 1956 BMW 507 roadster is generally regarded as one of the best designed and engineered sports cars of all time.

Stroke by stroke, Gerhard Kriedner applied pink acrylic paint with a small brush on a 13-metre stretch of the Berlin Wall, recreating the mural he first painted months after the Berlin Wall came down on Nov.

November 9 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In this report from Washington.

Twenty years after the Berlin Wall started coming down, the tunnels that had offered a Cold War escape route have become a popular tourist attraction.

Tourists' shadows are reflected on the "inner wall" at the Berlin Wall Memorial.

Three former heads of state who were in power at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 have taken part in ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the historic event.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has publicly recalled how he personally contributed to this turn in history as a Soviet spy in East Germany.

Nearly 20 years after the fall of the Wall, communist East Germany is an enigma for young Germans.

Achtung, baby: U2 will play a free concert in Berlin to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.